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alexandraerinNews For Today
I've caught up the newsletter subscription list--at least in terms of adding new ones. I'm not making pruning the people who signed up as a trial and never bought in a priority just yet. I've got a newsletter mostly prepped for tomorrow.
As regular readers of this blog know, I like to observe and tinker with my own work processes. The rather emotional circumstances I've been operating under have forced a further evolution in how I approach my writing.
I have already achieved remarkable results (500, 600, sometimes 700 or 800 words in a half hour sprint, thousands of words per day) through a process of reflection followed by writing in equal measures. But sometimes a half hour or hour of mental prep time isn't enough to calm my mind and focus it away from the events of the real world and onto those of the fictional one. So I've extended my reflection phase a bit, and now I begin the real prep work the day before I write, where I can mix it in with other things I'm doing.
It works rather well. When I started the "prep/write" ritual, the stories became a little more close to having an orderly progression. I feel these last few chapters--the chapters that so far make up the second book of the sophomore year--already show the benefits of further and longer reflection.
Some of the best things I've written are things that came to me when I was walking home from somewhere that would take two or three hours to walk home from, because I had the exercise to distract me and because I couldn't immediately sit down and try to write it. My knees no longer make that an option, but I've been picking out other things I can do to fill that gap.
I'm trying to work my way around to a point where I can be writing one story today that I prepped yesterday, and be prepping tomorrow's story during my breaks. It's possible, but it's a bit of a juggling act.
State Of The Me
Well, I slept. I had a really good solid meal last night. Those are good things, as I barely ate or slept this past weekend. Writing this, I'm realizing that I should be seeing about lunch right about now. See how helpful these status posts are? I believe that for the duration of the current situation, I should probably be making these even on weekends.
Dreams From Last Night
Mercifully, none.
Plans For Today
Round about two I'm going to start my prep/write process for the chapter that should be turned out by seven or eight. I'd estimate earlier because I've got an 800 word headstart on it, but I'm not at my best.
Tomorrow is Newsletter Finishing Day, and it's also going to be the triumphant return of the bullet point.
I've caught up the newsletter subscription list--at least in terms of adding new ones. I'm not making pruning the people who signed up as a trial and never bought in a priority just yet. I've got a newsletter mostly prepped for tomorrow.
As regular readers of this blog know, I like to observe and tinker with my own work processes. The rather emotional circumstances I've been operating under have forced a further evolution in how I approach my writing.
I have already achieved remarkable results (500, 600, sometimes 700 or 800 words in a half hour sprint, thousands of words per day) through a process of reflection followed by writing in equal measures. But sometimes a half hour or hour of mental prep time isn't enough to calm my mind and focus it away from the events of the real world and onto those of the fictional one. So I've extended my reflection phase a bit, and now I begin the real prep work the day before I write, where I can mix it in with other things I'm doing.
It works rather well. When I started the "prep/write" ritual, the stories became a little more close to having an orderly progression. I feel these last few chapters--the chapters that so far make up the second book of the sophomore year--already show the benefits of further and longer reflection.
Some of the best things I've written are things that came to me when I was walking home from somewhere that would take two or three hours to walk home from, because I had the exercise to distract me and because I couldn't immediately sit down and try to write it. My knees no longer make that an option, but I've been picking out other things I can do to fill that gap.
I'm trying to work my way around to a point where I can be writing one story today that I prepped yesterday, and be prepping tomorrow's story during my breaks. It's possible, but it's a bit of a juggling act.
State Of The Me
Well, I slept. I had a really good solid meal last night. Those are good things, as I barely ate or slept this past weekend. Writing this, I'm realizing that I should be seeing about lunch right about now. See how helpful these status posts are? I believe that for the duration of the current situation, I should probably be making these even on weekends.
Dreams From Last Night
Mercifully, none.
Plans For Today
Round about two I'm going to start my prep/write process for the chapter that should be turned out by seven or eight. I'd estimate earlier because I've got an 800 word headstart on it, but I'm not at my best.
Tomorrow is Newsletter Finishing Day, and it's also going to be the triumphant return of the bullet point.