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"How do I do this? How do YOU do this? How does it get done, this book-writing, storytelling thing? I keep starting and stopping, getting distracted, getting bored, getting broken.... what's the secret?"
The following paragraph has long resided in the sidebar of my Livejournal blog. Some days (weeks, months, years) it's useful to shake it out and look at it again.
You sit down. You tell a story. You do it any damn way it comes out that works consistently for you. You hope people like it. You hope people pay you for it. You do it again. And again. That's all I got. Zen and the Art of Writer Maintenance. You can cheer me on and I can cheer you on, but in the end? In the end it's down to how you get your getting done, done. So get it done.
You still need specifics? Ass in chair (or feet planted on the ground). Fingers on the letters (or wrapped around a pen). Small goals over and over again until you're done. Everything else is personal, and subject to change as the writer changes. Stop looking at me. Write.
"How do I do this? How do YOU do this? How does it get done, this book-writing, storytelling thing? I keep starting and stopping, getting distracted, getting bored, getting broken.... what's the secret?"
The following paragraph has long resided in the sidebar of my Livejournal blog. Some days (weeks, months, years) it's useful to shake it out and look at it again.
You sit down. You tell a story. You do it any damn way it comes out that works consistently for you. You hope people like it. You hope people pay you for it. You do it again. And again. That's all I got. Zen and the Art of Writer Maintenance. You can cheer me on and I can cheer you on, but in the end? In the end it's down to how you get your getting done, done. So get it done.
You still need specifics? Ass in chair (or feet planted on the ground). Fingers on the letters (or wrapped around a pen). Small goals over and over again until you're done. Everything else is personal, and subject to change as the writer changes. Stop looking at me. Write.
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Date: 2013-02-14 11:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-02-14 12:04 pm (UTC)(I have no patience with the 'cult' of writing, or the One True Way mentality. I've been around long enough to see that the only thing successful writers have in common is that they DO it. Most of them every single day, for however long it takes.)
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Date: 2013-02-14 03:39 pm (UTC)In any case, you are of course, right.
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Date: 2013-02-14 09:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-02-14 09:57 pm (UTC)I know there isn't
Date: 2013-02-15 12:34 am (UTC)I mean, the third time you start your first novel--sometimes it feels a little sad.
Re: I know there isn't
Date: 2013-02-15 12:36 am (UTC)*gives chocolate and an encouraging shove*