Yesterday, I realized that constant, successful writing takes two things: freedom and discipline. Discipline, not “forcing yourself to write and punishing yourself for not doing so”, but “allotting time to write and sticking to it, sitting down, writing and enjoying the thing, too”. It’s possible. Just yesterday, I re-read the beginning of Flowers, and I [...]
So I’ve had a weekend that really reset my stress-counter to zero (not that I feel obliged to run myself down again). And I’ve added a couple of pages to the Flowers. This is good. I’ll be going by tram to work again, starting tomorrow–but my son will come with me, so I don’t know [...]
It seems that all I need to start writing is: 1. a couple of good, productive days at work to boost my confidence, 2. a morning tram to work, 3. a constant notice in the blog that I am writing, yes, I am. So here I go. It’s nothing much, just two pages on that [...]
Today is the first day of my vacation. Curiously enough, I’ve managed to keep myself fairly busy with stuff, writing, editing and kids. Anyhow, the bottom line is… well, there are two bottom lines: 1. I seem to be quite unable to Do Nothing, Really Nothing except when I’m totally burned out. 2. I seem [...]
After the most depressing start of the week, today I finally got my brain back and did a whole lot of good writing. 1000+ words and a beautiful, surprising scene. Seems that sometimes, it is good to take a break. Now only to find a way to recognize these occasions…
On Friday, I finally coerced myself to write not only on the morning tram but to late afternoon tram back from work. So I met my daily goal (700+ words) and had all evening for myself (at least I told myself so, actually kids and husband claimed their share too). I’m still a bit flu-ed [...]
I did 1000+ words today and, combined with yesterday’s 700+, I’ve somehow done more than a half of my weekly goal. It seems that the weekly goal is a good idea, at least for somebody having a family and a day job because it helps to do at least some words every day (instead of [...]
Today, due to lack of internet connection, I managed to: – lick up the wounds on a rejection and submit my squad 4 to a new market (and this time, I didn’t shoot myself in the foot by misspelling the genre name, of all things!), – stroll through Project Humanity and queue it up for [...]
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