Monday, January 5, 2015

Day 162...Writing Tips From Writers...













Welcome to Day 162...

A new year, a new week and some (possibly) new ideas from writers on writing...

Enjoy...
From Josh Shenk Author of Lincoln’s Melancholy:
Get through a draft as quickly as possible. Hard to know the shape of the thing until you have a draft. Literally, when I wrote the last page of my first draft ofLincoln’s Melancholy I thought, Oh, shit, now I get the shape of this. But I had wasted years, literally years, writing and re-writing the first third to first half. The old writer’s rule applies: Have the courage to write badly. 

From Maryn McKenna  Author of Superbug & Beating Back the Devil
  1. You’re going to spend a lot of time in your head. Take care of your physical self too. Be just as committed to that as you are to getting your writing done every day. If you don’t care about your health, think your vanity — there’s an author video and a lot of public appearances in your future.
  2.  Bonus tip: Be good to your spouse/partner and protect time for them. They’re in this with you, but unlike you, they didn’t choose it.  
 From Cory Doctorow Author of With a Little Help, For the Win, Makersand Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
  1. Write every day. Anything you do every day gets easier. If you’re insanely busy, make the amount that you write every day small (100 words? 250 words?) but do it every day.
  2. Stop in the middle of a sentence, leaving a rough edge for you to start from the next day — that way, you can write three or five words without being “creative” and before you know it, you’re writing.
  3. Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

Writing can be hard but remember Today's Takeaway Lesson...

"It Always Seems Impossible Until It's Done"  Nelson Mandela

Here's to Being All In,

Maggie 

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