This months question is: As you look back on 2017, with all its successes/failures, if you could backtrack, what would you do differently?
I think the main thing that I would do differently is give myself more time and not put myself under pressure to write. I’m a slow writer anyway but I’ve decided that when I’m trying to force myself into a deadline that it makes it worse and I end up resenting what I’m writing. That’s what happened with my NaNoWriMo I started well but the impending deadline filled me with dread rather than excitement and it was no longer fun.
So for next year, I’m going to try and feel proud of whatever words I manage to write and not force myself to write them, to just let it flow.
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Written as part of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group.
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Yes! More time! And I would have given my interviewees more lead time, because that put me behind schedule for sure. http://www.raimeygallant.com
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Nice short post 🙂
I was told recently to just write 350 words a day even when you don’t feel like it, that way you are getting something down even if its total rubbish!
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That is good advice, has it worked for you? 🙂
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Sorry in the delay, I’m not sure tbh, I still tend to opt to sleep instead of writing lol how your wip going
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ground to a halt but through a mixture of the time of the year and some personal stuff, maybe in the new year I can start again 🙂
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Forcing ourselves to write never works, does it? A deadline can motivate us or cripple us. Once we figure out which one it is, we can take action and write. The most important thing is being proud of whatever word counts we reach. 🙂
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definitely, I think in very time pressurised situations it doesn’t work for me, maybe over longer periods I can achieve something of substance, but it’s all a learning process 🙂
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