Tuesday's Writer's Tip Time to Write #MFRWAuthor #BWLAuthor #Writing #Time

ck to John Gardner next week. On Saturday on the internet we had a meeting of our chapter. One thing that interested me was how many of the people weren't writing. I really thought a lot about this. I can understand one member's problem with writing. Sometimes life throws curve balls and writing is hard. But the people who bothered me were the onew who weren't writing and I thought of some strategies they could use.

One of our members has a really good one. She has chosen a day when she writes and this has become a great habit. If it's Saturday, she writes. Not sure what other people have set but setting aside a time when write is what you do and nothing else is a good habit to establish. How can you call yourself a writer if you don't write.

For me, I set a goal of 1000 words a day. Not all of this thousand is new words but much is. Now there are days when the words come easy and I will continue to work on that scene. I've done as many as four to five thousand words on a good day but that doesn't take away the goal for the next day. There are also days when life has interrupted and those thousand words are finished at midnith but they're done.

So my advice is if you want to be a writer, set yourself goals. Find a day or a time when no matter what you sit down and write. This will become a habit and you will feel the need to keep the habit. Set a goal of words. If you wrote just one page a day, think of how many pages you would have in 365 days. More than a book. Do the math. So my advice is to find a day or a time and a goal and you'll find you're not just calling yourself a writer. You will be one.

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Tuesday's Inspiration ala Dorothy Uhnak

This last piece of inspiration from the essay by Dorothy Uhnak is one every writer should follow, but sometimes the writing seems to sag and the writer believes they have a block. So here goes.

"Write. Do not talk about about it, whine about it, rap about it, agonize over it, discect, Analuze, story or anything else. Just do it. WRITE."

I ran into this just yesterday.Having finished a novella and the time had come to start at the beginning and see about the language and if the story was ready to send off. This is the final draft. I decided some of the chapters didn't seem to be going the way I wanted. I thought another complete re-writing was needed. "Wrong." At least I only wasted part of a day doing all the things listed above. Even went on Twitter to say I hated the story. A good night's sleep made me realize tha deciding to start in the middle of the read through was the really wrong thing to do.

While I'm not exactly writing, I am looking at the story and reading each word and sentence looking for word choice. How many times did I use the same word too close to the last time I'd used it. Tone, have I used the proper tone for this particular story. The last point was, how many times must you agonize over what's essentially a done deal.

I am inspired by the quote. Will I fall into the trap of not wanting to let a story go again? Probably. But I'll pull myself short and think about what needs to be done to make the story sing. So WRITE and let the story come to an end. There are other characters out there wanting their stories to be told.