Weekly Check-In Post

[sineala.livejournal.com]

How is everyone doing this week? Writing coming along well? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments!

For those of you who like to procrastinate by reading other people's writing tips and who could use a few more words on that Big Bang draft, I recommend How I Went From Writing 2,000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a Day.

For those of you with a lot of spare time, there's the Absolute Write thread Learn Writing With Uncle Jim. It's geared more towards the professional-novelist side of things, but it's still good advice.

Hope you're having fun!

Comments

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

Yay! It's always a good idea to take a break from your story when you think it's crap - nine times out of ten it's nowhere near as bad as you think it is. *g*

Being excited about your story again is absolutely brilliant! It seems to go much better when you're excited about it, doesn't it?

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

One reason I wanted to get on and get a draft into shape before the night before the deadline (yes, that's usually me) was to have the leisure to leave it well alone for a while and come back to it - when you've practically memorised it with re-reading it's always harder to 'see', I think.

And yes, the excitement helps so much - after all, it is for fun! *g*