How Being Tired Can Make You a Better Writer.
I just read the above article and realized that I rarely write when I am tired. One reason, is that my characters seem to reflect my physical needs. When I am hungry my characters sit down and eat, when sleepy they go to sleep, when the needs lean erotic… Well, without those pesky characters doing anything worth writing about, I tend to follow their lead.
Ms. Lamb, also, brought up the fast writing idea that pushes the critical thinker down so creativity can thrive. I can’t imagine writing a book in two weeks, called Fast Draft I have 10 novels written through NaNoWriMo which stands for National Novel Writing Month. Which is a misnomer now, as it is International, usually done in November. The idea is you write a 50K-word novel in 30 days. So my first was written between the Ides of March through the Ides of April. I wasn’t successful with the word count so I started where I left off, in November and gained 50K more words. Another time I wrote a ‘NaNo’ in June. That worked well. The next year the NaNo site set up Camp NaNo, which didn’t work well for me. Mostly I do well with the encouragement of writing friends. But sometimes I find other people to be a distraction. Sometimes the goal must be internalized and unannounced to others. In that case, maybe a two week write-a-thon would work for me.
On the other hand, the reason my novels are not published is EDITING. The verbal vomit is as messy to clean up as the yuck the cat leaves on the floor. I want to point to someone else to ‘clean it up.’ I wonder if there is an equivalentย of the stuff that amusement parks use for people messes, for writers?
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Hi! Thanks for the follow ๐ Did you disable your ‘like’ button? I’ve never seen anyone do that before.
I’m still really new here. Where is the ‘Like’ button so I can make sure?
I have no idea! I haven’t been around long either… I looked through everything on my blog and I can’t find anywhere that you can enable/disable the ‘like’ button. It should show up at the top of the page when you click on a blog, between Follow and Reblog. You should be able to see it on my page, but I can’t find it on yours. Actually, if you view your own blog page as the public would see it, it should be there. Try it…if you see it there then it’s just me. Otherwise, maybe it’s your theme…?
Good luck!
Thank you, Linda, I will look around more and see what I can learn. I hope I don’t paint myself into corners I can’t escape! Won’t it be nice when we are past this learning curve and become old hands at this? Thanks for your help. See ya soon on the webs! ๐
No problem. Happy blogging! ๐
Thanks for the follow, and I hope my blogs will be helpful to you! Kristin Lamb’s blogs are awesome–you’ll learn so much there. I know editing can feel overwhelming, but if you break it down into smaller chunks, I think you might feel more empowered. Everyone has a process that works for them–there’s no such thing as right or wrong, so don’t be intimidated. And good luck–sounds like you are a prolific writer!