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Tuesday, June 06, 2006Writers' Tips: Start Your Engines
I can't stress enough the importance of warm-up time.
As someone who likes to keep very busy, balancing more deadlines than I can often handle, I strive for the hard-to-reach ideal of writing in every free moment that I have. What I've found is that spare half-hours here and there are better suited for administrative tasks: responding to email, making to-do lists, editing what I've already written, researching, assembling a list of questions/problems that I'll need to deal with in my story, etc. If I try to actually WRITE during a short span of time, it's too easy to find that an hour has flown past with only a single new sentence on the screen. If I give myself up to an hour to get the blood flowing -- especially if I know that I have a couple more hours in front of me -- then I feel like the words are ready to come. There's a tip in the inverse of this as well: think you've been doing well and you deserve a break to browse the Internet, get a snack, or update your MySpace page ... you may find that your creative engine has cooled too much at this pit stop. Then you need to warm up all over again. During your time in front of a keyboard (or a blank notebook), always be aware of your ratio of writing/not writing. Labels: writers' tips // posted at
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