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ashling

(25,771 posts) Wed Jan 23, 2013, 03:43 AM Jan 2013

Writing Tip

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Writing Tip (Original Post) ashling Jan 2013 OP

Thinking maybe I should write today... NYC_SKP Jan 2013 #1

Might as well write. Chan790 Jan 2013 #2

How about... kag Jan 2013 #7

Damn, I so excel in procrastination! n/t TexasTowelie Jan 2013 #3

Procrastination is in the mind of the beholder ashling Jan 2013 #4

I'm heading there in about 9 minutes. TexasTowelie Jan 2013 #5

Good! ashling Jan 2013 #6

Yes! That sums it up perfectly! classof56 Jan 2013 #8

I write two hours a day and have a story that I have written at least 2500 words a roguevalley Jan 2013 #9

A friend is coming over this afternoon. After he leaves I am doing laundry AND kestrel91316 Jan 2013 #10

Sadly, that's true. SheilaT Jan 2013 #11

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)

1. Thinking maybe I should write today...

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Wed Jan 23, 2013, 03:46 AM

Jan 2013

Just a hunch!

Chan790

(20,176 posts)

2. Might as well write.

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Wed Jan 23, 2013, 04:44 AM

Jan 2013

I can't do anything else, I pulled my calf and can hardly get out of this chair.

What should I write about?

kag

(4,106 posts)

7. How about...

Reply to Chan790 (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 23, 2013, 09:39 AM

Jan 2013

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pulled calves. In fact, that sounds like a title, huh? "Pulled Calves" by Chan790. I'd read that.

On edit...

if it's short.

,,,and funny.

TexasTowelie

(116,496 posts)

3. Damn, I so excel in procrastination! n/t

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Wed Jan 23, 2013, 04:48 AM

Jan 2013

ashling

(25,771 posts)

4. Procrastination is in the mind of the beholder

Reply to TexasTowelie (Reply #3)

Wed Jan 23, 2013, 05:09 AM

Jan 2013

or the becrastinator, as it were, since time and color are merely pigments of our imagination.

Therefor, if a tree falls in your forest get out of the way
and never put off today what you can do tomorrow ... or maybe next week - or was it last weak... er, week.

now my head hurts .. so I'll go back to bed

TexasTowelie

(116,496 posts)

5. I'm heading there in about 9 minutes.

Reply to ashling (Reply #4)

Wed Jan 23, 2013, 05:12 AM

Jan 2013

ashling

(25,771 posts)

6. Good!

Reply to TexasTowelie (Reply #5)

Wed Jan 23, 2013, 05:29 AM

Jan 2013

at least I know I can go to bed without missing anything new over in the Texas group.

Goodnight.

classof56

(5,376 posts)

8. Yes! That sums it up perfectly!

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Wed Jan 23, 2013, 10:54 AM

Jan 2013

As a writer I say--Write On!

roguevalley

(40,656 posts)

9. I write two hours a day and have a story that I have written at least 2500 words a

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Thu Jan 24, 2013, 12:48 AM

Jan 2013

day every day since november, 2010. Even if you don't type a word, go and sit there every day at the same time. It is a muscle. Exercise it. No excuses short of malaria.

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)

10. A friend is coming over this afternoon. After he leaves I am doing laundry AND

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Sat Jan 26, 2013, 05:12 PM

Jan 2013

finishing up a little paid project I'm working on.

Even though it's my birthday and I should take the day off. It just doesn't feel like WORK to me when I write. I just typetypetype about stuff I'm an expert in already. And people PAY me. Still shaking my head in amazement about that.

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)

11. Sadly, that's true.

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Tue Jan 29, 2013, 11:11 PM

Jan 2013

When I write regularly, as in every day, it's amazing how much I can accomplish.

My dirty little secret is that I have a job where I can spend at least two of the four hours I'm there writing. I've been working on a novel for almost a year now, and it's coming along quite nicely, thank you. I more or less have the beginning and the middle drafted, but I'm not at all sure how it will end. Eventually it will come to me.

What I'm finding most interesting about this whole process, is just how the novel is coming together. I do go off in directions that won't work, or I realize that I need to make some basic changes in some of what happens, so I have to go back and change some other stuff. But I am having a great time doing it.

I just hope eventually some publisher likes it as well as I do. And of course, the book-buying public.

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