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The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc
shades of grey:
Hitting your word count is always good.
I had to give up on it. My method is slightly... erratic, so I just find if I've got anything down on paper at all it's a good thing.
Do you find the best ideas always come when you're stuck at work?
Starbeam:
--- Quote from: shades of grey on May 19, 2012, 03:46:44 PM ---Hitting your word count is always good.
I had to give up on it. My method is slightly... erratic, so I just find if I've got anything down on paper at all it's a good thing.
Do you find the best ideas always come when you're stuck at work?
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I've had to pretty much build up the momentum from writing nothing for several months last year-wedding and all that-and I started slow--at first just trying to get anything written--then setting myself a word count-started at 250 a day, now up to 500, and anything I don't get, I try to make up for on the weekends. More often than not, I'm getting maybe 100-300 during lunch, and sometimes I can manage a little bit more after work. But for me it is definitely one of those things where the more often I write, the more gets written.
I don't know if the best ideas come at work, though I do get a lot then. In the shower and when I'm trying to go to sleep are other times. But I know that at work, I can really let my mind go because it doesn't take much concentration to work on the puzzles I do, and I can listen to books, music, or podcasts, which often makes my mind go off on tangents and think "ohh...this'd be really cool" and I make a note on my iPhone.
cenwolfgirl:
--- Quote from: shades of grey on May 19, 2012, 03:46:44 PM ---Hitting your word count is always good.
I had to give up on it. My method is slightly... erratic, so I just find if I've got anything down on paper at all it's a good thing.
Do you find the best ideas always come when you're stuck at work?
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or school
or just getting up / ready to leave the house
LDWriter2:
Hello new here...finally. I tried a while back a couple of times but the forum didn't seem to like my computer even after I registered.
Anyway, Good job writing there you all.
I usually write every day even though sometimes it's revising which is a different type of writing...uses a different part of the brain. I've found I tend to get cranky, feel out of sorts and a tad depressed if I don't write for a couple of days.
I don't usually keep track of how many words I do unless it's something special. Like The National Write A Novel Month challenge...a 50,000 word novel in November. Two years ago I did a UF novel this past Nov it was a Space Opera.
Anyway, I have to keep track of my word count for that but most of the time I either don't think about it or am too lazy. But as I said I try to write every day some. Like right now I'm going to stop procrastinating--which this is :) and get to revising a certain novel.
Louis
Okay, how do the smilies work? So it worked that way hmmm.
shades of grey:
Hi LD, welcome! :)
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