TVTropes, Wikipedia, a picture search or even looking up the meaning of a word are all ways of sabotaging myself by damming the word flow for something that may only tangentially be of relevance. Delete! Delete! Change it completely - the word choice, the direction of the scene, the tone - anything but what was just down. Everything I've just read is obviously crap and should be torn out, root and branch. ![]() Too much editing in the writing stage leaves you constipated (and that's enough with that metaphor).Ī more malignant version of the Real-time Editor, Inside the Voice of Suck is most often triggered by rereading (or having someone read over my shoulder while I am typing). You can polish a turd to a high sheen, but you've got to have the bowel movement first. The occasional tweak of the previous line is OK, but we want the word count going upwards. Yes, writing is re-writing, but it helps to have something down first. This power-up is for the rarest sort - writing done at home, on holidays or other insanely impossible times. Most of my writing time is stolen from somewhere. It can also be used when I've done extra towards it (which will also be in dribs and drabs) This one is for when I've done something, but not the whole shebang. While the plan is for 350 words a day, if I am honest with myself that won't always happen. Who says books have to be written chronologically? Feeling stuck? Just getting no-where with the book? Timejump to a sexy part of the story that has already been done to death inside my head a million times, and get it down on paper. It is embarrassing when I can't remember the villain's name, or what the main character does. This would be a good use of the mornings, or other times when I don't have very long. It is all well and good doing all this planning and world building, but I have to review my notes. Outlining is the smaller bit like why the boy loses the girl, and how he wins her back. Other parts are things I've stolen from the Author Fu one, or elsewhere.ĭo some planning for the story - the tentpoles are the big important elements: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy wins girl. ![]() The icon for it comes from one of his books, and a lot of the ideas are things he talks about in his blog. This power pack is based the Author Fu one and Chuck Wendig's suggestion that if you want to write a book, and you do 350 words every week day, then after a year you will have a book.
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