Ah, the famous writing tips! For the last ten-fifteen years, aspiring authors, authors and creative writing coach have been sharing writing tips online. Writing books about it. Lauching podcast about it. Nothing but the writing tips that make sense and address the fact that humans are better than computers!
This one is for you… and me!
Throughout the writing time and space, how to be productive remains an unavoidable source of questioning and, let’s be real here, anxiety for writers.
Routine. Time block. Discipline. Outlines.
Pomodoro method. Writing Sprints. Daily word count.
Yeah, sure. What else?
Continuer la lecture de « Let’s Be Productive Writers… Most of the Time Anyway »It started some thirty-plus years ago.
A middle school day. Was it a maths class? Biology? Economy?
One thing is certain, I was writing when I should have listened. Writing always has been my thing. Reading and writing.
I was writing before going to bed, on the way to school, and sometimes at recess. With a blue pen, in plain school notebooks. Out of these many many words, not a lot turned into interesting stories. A lot less turned into good stories.
Often, I would hit a need-to-research-this block. A week could go by before I had time to go to the library to look it up.
Since the explosion of modern blogging (author Amanda Zantal-Wiener wrote a great post about the history of blogs, that’s how I sound knowledgeable right here) when in the 2010s, research-wise anyway, our writer’s life got a grand lot easier.
Writing tips-wise, however, that’s another story. No pun intended!
Continuer la lecture de « Old Fashion Writings Tips for Technologically Overwhelmed Writers »Writing goals. Daily word counts. Writing productivity hacks.
A well-known feeling, as a New Year’s Eve rises, yet again, upon this dear wide wild world, emerge.
This year, oh this year…
All those writing projects will come flying out of our imagination onto the page.
This year, oh this year…
All those books will touch the hearts of literary agents or publishers if, like me, you’re from Quebec, you are writing in French and you’re trying to make despite a real thought market.
This year, oh this year…
Why does the feeling of a new start seem ever stronger when a new year awaits around the corner?
Why do feel the urge to make new goals, to put pressure on ourselves the minute the clock dings midnight?
I wished I was a professional writer or journalist when those kinds of questions fluttered around and around in my mind.
But, circumstances being, let’s dive in with the information we can gather.
Why do most of us writers feel more motivated upon New Year’s Eve?
Continuer la lecture de « New Year’s New Writing Goals : Why Do We Do It? »
Marie Alice 