Last month, we heard from over a dozen authors who shared with us their writing routines. Or lack thereof. If there is one clear take-away, it is that there is no one right way to write. Perhaps not even one right way for each person.
When I started to realize that I identified with both the [...]
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Jan
My favorite part of James Scott Bell’s Revision & Self-Editing is the epilogue, “The Trick That Cannot Be Explained.” Here Jim shows us the parallel between magic tricks and fiction writing – the more tricks you know, the greater the sense of awe and magic in the audience. I love when I’m reading a book [...]
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Jan
I told you I own two books on revision, so I thought I’d share some of the insights I’ve gleaned. The first book is Revision: A Creative Approach to Writing and Rewriting Fiction by David Michael Kaplan. One of the things David says about revision is that it’s a re-envisioning of your story. That re-envisioning [...]
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Jan
Last week I told you that my first steps in revision are to print out my entire manuscript and read it through in one sitting, creating a revision list as I go. I write down everything that occurs to me including questions, ideas, answers to questions I’d written in parentheses, repetitive words and phrases, inconsistencies, [...]
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Jan
January means a new start for many people in a variety of areas in life. For those of us who wrote madly during November, January is often the first chance we have to sit down and focus on rewriting that crazy new story. I took two weeks off at Christmas, so the details of my [...]
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Dec
My husband and I were talking about our 2010 joint goals and individual goals this week, and I remembered a little booklet I found on the Internet a few weeks ago. I was sure I’d shared it with you all, but I just looked over all of my December posts and I haven’t!
The web site [...]
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Dec
Christmas vacation! Yay! That phrase has different connotations for everyone, but most people are thinking of taking a bit of time off work, eating special foods, seeing more of family and friends, and doing a few fun things. (For us, that means seeing at least half a dozen movies in two weeks!)
This is one of [...]
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Dec
Plan for Success, Part 2
Posted by Kitty Bucholtz Published in Making Goals, Organization, Productivity, SuccessLast week I told you how I start planning out my new year with a calendar. I figure out how many days I think I can write out of the 365, mark off the ones I don’t expect to write, and figure out how to meet my goals with the remaining days.
There are two ways [...]
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Dec
Plan for Success, Part 1
Posted by Kitty Bucholtz Published in NaNoWriMo, Organization, Productivity, SuccessNow that NaNoWriMo is over, I am thinking about the year ahead. I’ve gotten back into a routine, and now I need to keep up with it. An occasional polishing or revising of routines won’t hurt either. So how do I begin? Since NaNo is so close to January, post-NaNo usually begins my annual planning. [...]
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Dec
My NaNo Reward – Writing Routines!
Posted by Kitty Bucholtz Published in NaNoWriMo, Productivity, SuccessFirst, can I just give a shout out to all our NaNo-ing friends who hit the 50,000 word mark? Woo-hoooo!!!! You guys ROCK!!!
Second, if you participated this year – or anytime you’re challenging yourself to write more – and you didn’t hit the mark you were aiming for, sit down for a second and look [...]
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