Writing

Chan790

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10. How do you find the discipline?

Thu Dec 15, 2011, 09:20 PM

Dec 2011

I find it easy to sit down every day to write for a few hours...for about two weeks, then life intervenes or I don't feel well or I just don't feel like writing and the whole thing falls back to zero-equilibrium until some new idea catches my fancy and inflames my writing-drive again.

I've got to have 500 started ideas at this point that die after 10-30 pages. I know I have talent but I think I lack the drive to actually do this.

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Working on getting the courage to write [View all] syberlion May 2011 OP

i'm posting here because i want them to keep this group orleans May 2011 #1

I'm working out a paragraph a day icymist May 2011 #2

I've sold six short stories, and writen two unpublished novels... Ozymanithrax May 2011 #3

How do you find the discipline? Chan790 Dec 2011 #10

I am right there with you. Life just starts to happen beyurslf Dec 2011 #11

The same thing happens to me ALL the time... Fearless Feb 2012 #15

I've done a lot of writing -- but for money and to please employers. JDPriestly Dec 2011 #4

writing happens while you are writing. babydollhead Dec 2011 #5

That's it in a nutshell. Just write as the thoughts come to you, then edit later. SlimJimmy Dec 2011 #9

I've written a few books onlyadream Dec 2011 #6

Writing groups don't always work. sybylla Dec 2011 #7

I got lucky onlyadream Dec 2011 #8

PM me. I'm a real bastard of a critic. HopeHoops Dec 2011 #12

For a very, very long time Remember Me Dec 2011 #13

The best way to improve your writing is to write. McCamy Taylor Feb 2012 #14

This is what I do. no_hypocrisy Mar 2012 #16