Hi peeps, Who's doing it? On average you should have done 36 2/3 pages by now. I'm only on 19, but it's okay, I'm a strong finisher. According to my ex, anyway...
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I joined. Just finished page 59. So I'm at a pretty good pace. Just hoping the dreaded writer's block doesn't show it's ugly head.
I'm doing it but I haven't updated my page counts... I really ought to try to keep my counts current.
59? That's pretty good. So good, I'll ignore the horrid typo :p If it does show its head, at least you'll have time to bat it off.
A writers worst nightmare is writers block, or worse memory loss. For every page done there is the next step of revisions and editing.
I am where you are....I need to get off this site and get writing.
a new trick i just happened upon is i lay in bed with my eyes closed in the morning when i am first getting up and visualizing scenes...then i pop up rearing to go! sometimes it is intimidating to sit in front of a blank page! if this doesn't help (or you are a night writer) try watching a film/tv show/short or youtube a video in the same vein as what you are working on, or something with a similar character, to help jar ideas! is all else fails just go to mindless writing about the floor, your bellybutton lint, anything just put it on the page and you can't beat yourself up for 'not writing today'! xx
Somebody, it might have been Hemingway, suggested leaving your work mid-sentence, so it gives you a starting point when you get back on it the next day.
Yes, leave at a good point. If you are flowing, then keep writing until you are written out. Come back fresh the next day with no regrets if you didn't get your page count done. Some days it will be two pages and others ten. As long as you write every day, that is the key. "The professional respects Resistance. He knows it he caves today, no matter how plausible the pretext, he’ll be twice likely to cave in tomorrow. The professional knows Resistance is like a telemarketer; if you so much as say hello, you’re finished. The pro doesn’t even pick up the phone. He stays at work."—Steven Pressfield "The War of Art" an AMAZING book on the creative battle.