In the next draft, I can do more research, answer those questions, edit, synopsize, expand. Often I write myself notes right in the draft: “MORE HERE? IS THE ROCKY COASTLINE COMMON IN THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY? HOW ROCKY IS IT? HOW DOES SHE FEEL ABOUT/REACT TO THE ROCKY COASTLINE?”
Incorporate the Information You’ve Found, Increasing Writing ProductivityĪs I’m writing, I can pull up the information I found and choose a lot or a little, adapt it to the characters and setting, or add details that appear from my immersion. The piece is then easily accessible for reference.
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When I research a place, time, event, or procedure and discover a perfect article or explanation, I make a PDF of it and file it in my folder of the current work.
Of course, a little self-discipline is required not to keep reading and researching during your writing time way beyond what you need (or clicking on PopSugar). So you do some research (bless the Internet). As You Immerse, You May Need More Information…Ībout the environment, the characters, the clothes, or other details. Stop, picture, imagine, feel the place, weather, character, situation, time of day or night. In That Relaxing, Take Your Time and Sink Into the Work No frenzied typing simply to fill the page or meet the word count. I start the session with an affirmation: I deserve this time. Some days my production was single-digit, and on good days I made it to twenty or thirty words.īut tracking time freed me from that inner word count critic for many reasons. Writing Productivity: Why Time?Įmulating the best-selling word-counting writers, I tried tracking words and gave up in red-faced chagrin. I’ve used both time tracking and word count, and once I find-or, more accurately, make-the time to write, I’ve found that counting time works better than counting words. Most pieces on time focus on helping us find that elusive time to write. Many articles appear on word counts, but fewer articles focus on time tracking. A daily word count can be doable (Hemingway 500) or ghastly (Michael Crichton 10,000). Successful authors’ self-imposed word count quotas vary greatly, as lists show. We writers often puzzle (or obsess) over this question: For writing productivity, should I count words or track my time?
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