Branching out with my writing
from https://twitter.com/i/lists/120501776 [Writing Gurus]
https://advicetowriters.com/advice/2013/6/7/do-not-sit-and-mope.html
Seven Methods to Inspire Your Next Book
from Writing Routines
Three of the methods:
As I’m sure most of you know, Quora offers a wealth of knowledge and personal experience [and bias] on a wide range of subjects.
So let’s dig for some writerly wisdom…much of it coming from folks like you and me…
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-writing-advice-you-have-received
I hope you find something helpful and/or affirming.
Picked up on this interesting site via my weekly Internet Scout Report.
This link takes you to its calendar of writing topics/prompts, but check out the other menu items as well, including the Writer’s Excuse Bingo, which strikes me as potential Zoom meeting fodder for your writers group.
[Note: Ignore the ‘Resources’ menu item. Lots of dead ends there.]
Enjoy!
Whoa…the 100 Interviews page alone abounds with lessons and insights from successful writers, researchers, and award-winners.
Some favorite topics covered:
Just think of the self-customized online course you could create this site.
And if you’re in a writers group, this is tailor-made or a fun and informative Zoom meeting.
My last post dealt with blaming others for my not writing.
Hey, whatever gets me generating text…»
But on a more serious note, I ran across Steven Kotler, who has a popular course called Flow for Writers.
So I looked further into the topic and ran across this informative interview. Compare your strategies to his.
https://www.writingroutines.com/steven-kotler/
Highlights:
Do you listen to music when you write, or do you prefer silence, or something else on in the background?
“…70 percent of the time I will listen to music with headphones so it’s right up in my ear. I will usually make one or two playlists for a book and I will listen to the same playlist over and over and over again…if I find a playlist that I kicked into a flow state with really early on in my process and was very successful I will keep using it because it will keep driving that flow.”
When you’re staring at the screen at 4:00 AM, do you just start clicking away? What’s going through your head at that initial moment?
“Even if the day before was a terrible writing day, I am so fired up to go at it again. I can be an absolutely miserable writer sometimes, but I wake up every day so fired up to do this.”
And finally, to put me to shame with all my finger pointing…
“When I wrote West of Jesus I had spent three years in bed with Lyme disease and I needed to tell that story to open the book, but I thought, ‘I spent three years in bed with Lyme but who cares? Compared to getting cancer or losing a limb, so what?’”
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What’s your favorite music to carry you through your writing sessions?
What do you do to help you get into ‘flow’?
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