Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Thu, Apr 23 2015
Breaking waves
These writing experts who advise writers to write in a big flow every single day and then edit later may certainly find that useful. It does not work for me. If I churn out 5000 words and then find later that I've written absolute guano, I'm not going to bother spending time to edit it. I'm going to get rid of it.
The true writing habit for me builds like an incoming tide, a collection of ideas that push in and fill available space until the wave breaks. I might spend days thinking, reading and researching, even jotting down phrases and scenarios, but when I do reach the point where I have to write fully or burst, the words come with substance.
If I find that I'm delaying for too long, the idea is either not right or the timing is not right. I make notes of the basics and put them in a file folder. That wave may return and break at some future date in a better form. If not, I'm free to work on the material that is pressing in right this moment.
posted at: 08:13 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
These writing experts who advise writers to write in a big flow every single day and then edit later may certainly find that useful. It does not work for me. If I churn out 5000 words and then find later that I've written absolute guano, I'm not going to bother spending time to edit it. I'm going to get rid of it.
The true writing habit for me builds like an incoming tide, a collection of ideas that push in and fill available space until the wave breaks. I might spend days thinking, reading and researching, even jotting down phrases and scenarios, but when I do reach the point where I have to write fully or burst, the words come with substance.
If I find that I'm delaying for too long, the idea is either not right or the timing is not right. I make notes of the basics and put them in a file folder. That wave may return and break at some future date in a better form. If not, I'm free to work on the material that is pressing in right this moment.
posted at: 08:13 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
