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-mornin'. -Wait, how'd that novel sneak in here?!?!Working In Close By: brianoberkirch (15 replies) January 11, 2008 - 9:15am
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-mornin'. -Wait, how'd that novel sneak in here?!?!
Somewhere I heard someone say that because of its length, a Novel cannot be a hobby.
Well, against my resistant nature -I took that advice to heart.
So: I sat down at the same time, listened to the same electronic music, and wrote for 2 hours, ~2k words, every single night.
After about 4 months, I woke up one day with about 400 new pages.
*Not only that, but doing the same thing at the same time every day seemed to prep my brain to think on it and inspirations seemed much easier to come by as a result of conditioning.
?Lightning Bolts from Routine; -who knew?
Right now I’m fighting against being negative and hyperscrutinizing/editing while I’m supposed to be writing.
So for my part: Routine is Your Friend.