Comments on: Daily Writing http://www.gardenofeden.net/eve/2008/07/14/daily-writing rambling rants and ruminations on mundane life Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:33:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: SylviaN http://www.gardenofeden.net/eve/2008/07/14/daily-writing/comment-page-1#comment-486 SylviaN Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:12:17 +0000 http://www.gardenofeden.net/eve/?p=478#comment-486 You know, I'm not much a fan of Stephen King, but I took another bit of advice from him. I don't remember the exact words but the gist is to set a specific time of day to write and the muse will learn to show up. I don't have a specific time everyday, but I have picked Sunday mornings devoted to two hours of writing focused on novel work. At first, boy was it hard. I wrote some serious garbage, but I think it is starting to work. At this point, I've split it up to one hour editing and one hour writing fresh. In that time I only reach about 1500 words of new stuff. I do tend to write something every day, but I don't do word counts on them. It's random. I'm afraid I'll start neglecting the work that pays the bills if I set word count goals for myself daily. To my advantage, of course, is I don't have a child needing my care and attention. Should that change, I may have to change my hours of writing to nighttime. Hmm...I wonder how that will work out. Think the muse will get ticked off? ;-) You know, I’m not much a fan of Stephen King, but I took another bit of advice from him. I don’t remember the exact words but the gist is to set a specific time of day to write and the muse will learn to show up. I don’t have a specific time everyday, but I have picked Sunday mornings devoted to two hours of writing focused on novel work. At first, boy was it hard. I wrote some serious garbage, but I think it is starting to work. At this point, I’ve split it up to one hour editing and one hour writing fresh. In that time I only reach about 1500 words of new stuff.

I do tend to write something every day, but I don’t do word counts on them. It’s random. I’m afraid I’ll start neglecting the work that pays the bills if I set word count goals for myself daily.

To my advantage, of course, is I don’t have a child needing my care and attention. Should that change, I may have to change my hours of writing to nighttime. Hmm…I wonder how that will work out. Think the muse will get ticked off? ;-)

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