If you keep word count logs–and if you aspire to be a prolific writer you absolutely should be keeping word logs–then you have probably noticed that over time your word count per hour slowly diminishes. There are a few reasons this happens. Because there is no pressure while you are writing, you get slower […]
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Strategy Number Five: Organization and Structure This is the last of a six-part post series on defeating resistance (with a small “r”). To start at the beginning of the series, click here. Let’s get straight into the organization and structure hacks that will help you sit down and write when you say you want to,
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Strategy Number Three: Environment. How did you go with just starting? In part four of our series on defeating resistance, this week I’m looking at the environment where you write. Sometimes, you have no control over the physical environment in which you write. The local coffee shop is going to be noisy, although there
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Strategy Number Two: Just Start. Last week we looked at some of the mental blocks that help resistance get a foothold in your brain. When resistance is at its most active, though, is the few moments before you sit down and start writing, to about twenty minutes after you have “started” (if you actually
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Strategy Number One: Mindset Today we’re looking at the first strategy of five approaches to defeating resistance and getting more written. Last week [here] I explained why you need these five strategies. All of us do. Resistance is built into the human psyche. How you approach resistance, deal with it, and how you think
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Anne Lamott is famous for having said we should all write shitty first drafts. As I’ve learned to write faster, I’ve come to believe that shitty first drafts are the worst thing a writer should aim for. The pulp writers of old wrote the cleanest first drafts you’ve ever seen. Every time they stopped to
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How do you decide when you’re going to write? Do you move through your day, hoping time will magically open up when you can sit and scribble a few hundred words on your current manuscript? Do you get to the end of your day and feel frustrated, because you never opened the manuscript at all?
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This is part II of a series. You’ll find Part I here. Build a production schedule Your production schedule is different than, but related to, your writing schedule. Your production schedule is a business document. It is a statement of what you intend to publish in the next year—or more, if you want to
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This article was written in 2004, when e-publishing was just getting going and so was a new publishing venture called Ellora’s Cave. I was one of their earlier writers and I have spent the fifteen years since trying to shake off the “erotica author” tag, primarily by trying to teach the difference between erotica and
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How to Write a Novel While You’re Holding Down A Day Job This post first appeared on TracyCooperPosey.com, on June 8, 2013. It was written for other writers, a rare aberration on that site. It was also written two years after I had gone 100% indie. It’s still relevant. -t. Every few weeks I browse
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