Thank you for that link; it's excellent! And what a relief to know that successful, published authors sometimes skip a day of writing. For years, I have criticized myself for (1) not writing every day and (2) not sticking to one project at a time, and (3) not being able to work at more than one project/type of writing in an average day. I've gradually been coming to the "rule" that I should try to write almost every day - but not beat myself up if I can't manage to - and that I should strive to finish projects and put them out there in some form. And now I know there are others who work this way. Yay!
Those are the only two rules I'm sticking to. Brenda Ueland, author of If You Want to Write had two more. She said the only rules she followed were: Always tell the truth, and never do anything you don't want to do!
Oh, and I loved what the original poster said about (not) forging ahead, too. Sometimes you just don't know what comes next, and you have to find out. That's part of the process, for me. I can't outline everything in advance because I have to be in the process of listening to/following the characters to discover what they do.
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Great post!
Date: 2008-12-16 09:24 pm (UTC)Those are the only two rules I'm sticking to. Brenda Ueland, author of If You Want to Write had two more. She said the only rules she followed were: Always tell the truth, and never do anything you don't want to do!
Oh, and I loved what the original poster said about (not) forging ahead, too. Sometimes you just don't know what comes next, and you have to find out. That's part of the process, for me. I can't outline everything in advance because I have to be in the process of listening to/following the characters to discover what they do.
Still looking forward to reading Knife -