Comments on: How to Achieve Your Writing Goal Every Day http://www.writerstechnology.com/2008/11/how-to-achieve-your-writing-goal-every-day Tools, Tips, and Technology for Productive Writers Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:31:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Writing sample: Lamy Vista | Everything About SEO http://www.writerstechnology.com/2008/11/how-to-achieve-your-writing-goal-every-day/comment-page-1#comment-1329 Writing sample: Lamy Vista | Everything About SEO Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:44:47 +0000 http://www.writerstechnology.com/2008/11/how-to-achieve-your-writing-goal-every-day#comment-1329 [...] also used on: www.writerstechnology.com/2008/11/how-to-achieve-your-wri… and www.bryankarl.com/2008/12/if-you-have-nothing-good-to-pos… and Central Michigan Public [...] […] also used on: http://www.writerstechnology.com/2008/11/how-to-achieve-your-wri… and http://www.bryankarl.com/2008/12/if-you-have-nothing-good-to-pos… and Central Michigan Public […]

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]]> By: Ryan http://www.writerstechnology.com/2008/11/how-to-achieve-your-writing-goal-every-day/comment-page-1#comment-832 Ryan Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:22:39 +0000 http://www.writerstechnology.com/2008/11/how-to-achieve-your-writing-goal-every-day#comment-832 Most people who say that you should get up an hour earlier fail to mention that you should go to bed earlier too. I find that irresponsible. Your post is the first that I've read that qualified that statement in a responsible manner. I suspect that is what triggered my diabetes - getting between 5 an 6 1/2 hours of sleep every night for prolonged periods of time. Thanks for passing that on. Most people who say that you should get up an hour earlier fail to mention that you should go to bed earlier too. I find that irresponsible. Your post is the first that I’ve read that qualified that statement in a responsible manner. I suspect that is what triggered my diabetes — getting between 5 an 6 1/2 hours of sleep every night for prolonged periods of time. Thanks for passing that on.

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]]> By: Dustin http://www.writerstechnology.com/2008/11/how-to-achieve-your-writing-goal-every-day/comment-page-1#comment-590 Dustin Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:09:06 +0000 http://www.writerstechnology.com/2008/11/how-to-achieve-your-writing-goal-every-day#comment-590 lfamous: I have to say, I admire the chutzpah of writing a novel without an outline -- though knowing where you want to end up strikes me as helpful. It's like drawing a straight line -- when you look at the tip of your pencil, your line ends up meandering all over the place. When I was drafting in high school, they taught us to look at the place where you want your line to end up, which resulted in a much straighter line. I think most writers are "end of the pencil" types, so it's better for us to do short strokes that keep us on track (moving from point to point in an outline). I'll be curious to see how your "eyes on the prize" approach works out for you. lfamous: I have to say, I admire the chutzpah of writing a novel without an outline — though knowing where you want to end up strikes me as helpful. It’s like drawing a straight line — when you look at the tip of your pencil, your line ends up meandering all over the place. When I was drafting in high school, they taught us to look at the place where you want your line to end up, which resulted in a much straighter line. I think most writers are “end of the pencil” types, so it’s better for us to do short strokes that keep us on track (moving from point to point in an outline). I’ll be curious to see how your “eyes on the prize” approach works out for you.

]]> By: Dustin http://www.writerstechnology.com/2008/11/how-to-achieve-your-writing-goal-every-day/comment-page-1#comment-589 Dustin Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:05:12 +0000 http://www.writerstechnology.com/2008/11/how-to-achieve-your-writing-goal-every-day#comment-589 Topsy-Techie: I think one big difference between the writing I (and I think you) do every day is that, in most cases, when I've written 1500 or 2000 words, I'm done -- or, at worst, I have a couple days of work to do before I'm done. Writing a novel is scarier because most of the time, there's no saying when it will be done. It might take 3 months or 6 months or 2 years or 10 years. Taking on a project without an end in sight can be terrifying and demoralizing. I think that's why NaNoWriMo resonates with so many people -- it's hard work, but the end is close enough to mentally grasp - Nov 30. The lesson I draw from that is to give yourself a hard time limit for your novel. You can always go back and flesh out parts if you reach the end and there are missing pieces, but by writing through to the end, at least you have a skeleton of something *real*. What most writers do to sabotage themselves, I think, is they get to the part that needs fleshing out and they stall out while they try to figure it out, so they never reach the end. Topsy-Techie: I think one big difference between the writing I (and I think you) do every day is that, in most cases, when I’ve written 1500 or 2000 words, I’m done — or, at worst, I have a couple days of work to do before I’m done. Writing a novel is scarier because most of the time, there’s no saying when it will be done. It might take 3 months or 6 months or 2 years or 10 years. Taking on a project without an end in sight can be terrifying and demoralizing. I think that’s why NaNoWriMo resonates with so many people — it’s hard work, but the end is close enough to mentally grasp — Nov 30.

The lesson I draw from that is to give yourself a hard time limit for your novel. You can always go back and flesh out parts if you reach the end and there are missing pieces, but by writing through to the end, at least you have a skeleton of something *real*. What most writers do to sabotage themselves, I think, is they get to the part that needs fleshing out and they stall out while they try to figure it out, so they never reach the end.

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