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Writing diary – day 15

 

Reading Time: 2 minutes Trying to juggle home, writing and work life is a tricky thing – despite all the goal setting, the trying to find your ideal writing time and so n, the honest truth is: it’s just plain hard. This week, for example, is a fairly average week but I’ve still only managed to actually sit down and write for an hour and  a half, today. There’s lots of reasons why – there’s all sorts of other claims on my time, and other things take priority in some cases because there are actual real-life consequences for not getting them done. Whereas the …

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Writing diary – day 8

 

Reading Time: 1 minute Really interesting progress made today – yesterday I watched a video on design, as suggested by my awesome fiancé Dan, who also is trying to do really creative things and sometimes finds it hard to get going – but is working really hard on making it happen! In the video, Aaron Draplin, a graphic artist/designer, designs a logo – and he uses some really straightforward but incredibly effective techniques. So that’s what I did today. I started with a white board, and a question – why? Why does my character do what he does, and how does it change? Where are …

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Writing diary – day 7

 

Reading Time: 2 minutes Day 5 and 6 pretty much took up entirely with school work = sometimes that happens, but I do find it frustrating which is more a matter of my own habits than anything else. Writing at a et time everyday, perhaps, would make sure that it becomes a priority – I would never not be at work between 8 and 4, for example – so why can I not always be at my desk at 6.30 to write for an hour?  It’s difficult, though, fitting the time in and feeling motivated at the time. That’s a huge problem, mostly caused by my current worries. …

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How to find your golden time: Writing diary #writingday4

 

Reading Time: 2 minutes Some days are much slower than others! for my own habits, I need to get started writing earlier in the evening – sometimes easier said than done with my day job. Today it was half past nine, which is a bit late really after an evening of work before that. Know when to write It’s really important to know your routine: do you write best in the morning or evening? Are there some activities that are so mentally draining that you can’t write after them but really just need to recharge and then think again? If you’re struggling, try tracking …

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Writing diary #writingday3

 

Reading Time: 1 minute 200 words written today. Quick, but achingly slow at the same time. The actual process of writing the words is fast enough – maybe even just a few minutes sometimes – but the process of getting started can be terrible, trying to finally get down to it and stop wondering about new cars or getting the washing done, or having tea, or any of the other seemingly more important things that take up so much time but don’t actually, at the end of the night, seem that important after all.

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Writing diary #writingday2

 

Reading Time: 2 minutes I wrote about 500 words, which is generally very good – especially on a words per minute basis -and it’s probably coming towards the end of the story. Probably Because I’m not quite sure where it ends. This is my far more common problem – I like the idea of planning a novel, really planning it so that you know what’s going to happen all the way through. But I find it virtually impossible to work like that in practice. I’ve tried both ways – plotting the entire thing and just getting started and seeing what happens – and I …