Scribble, please tell me a bit more about your writing schedule when you have a chance. Your progress for Novel Month is pretty intense, and when I sit down lately to write I hit a larger wall of resistance than usual. I'm trying to bring myself out of it, but I can't seem to find a routine that is sticking just yet.
Originally posted by QuincyI'm afraid I don't really have a specific schedule or anything, or a routine, I'm very much an instinctual writer - I basically write whatever my mind decides upon, and if I start getting bored then I take the plot or circumstance in a completely different direction
Scribble, please tell me a bit more about your writing schedule when you have a chance. Your progress for Novel Month is pretty intense, and when I sit down lately to write I hit a larger wall of resistance than usual. I'm trying to bring myself out of it, but I can't seem to find a routine that is sticking just yet.
The novel I'm writing at the moment is also highly suited to stream of consciousness, so there were points where I was non-stop typing for hours at a time, following whatever weird thread I could imagine (whilst sticking to a singular character's perspective and their associated style)
If you ever feel a block when you sit down to write, my advice would be to approach it differently - change tense or person, or just start writing without thinking and see what comes out.
I also highly recommend writing a bunch of formally-structured poetry (sonnets, odes, epigrams, blank verse, etc.), I've found that doing that has really helped to open up my personal style and has made my prose more fluid.
Originally posted by Scribble
I'm afraid I don't really have a specific schedule or anything, or a routine, I'm very much an instinctual writer - I basically write whatever my mind decides upon, and if I start getting bored then I take the plot or circumstance in a completely different directionThe novel I'm writing at the moment is also highly suited to stream of consciousness, so there were points where I was non-stop typing for hours at a time, following whatever weird thread I could imagine (whilst sticking to a singular character's perspective and their associated style)
If you ever feel a block when you sit down to write, my advice would be to approach it differently - change tense or person, or just start writing without thinking and see what comes out.
I also highly recommend writing a bunch of formally-structured poetry (sonnets, odes, epigrams, blank verse, etc.), I've found that doing that has really helped to open up my personal style and has made my prose more fluid.
Thanks Scribble.
This is all good advice. Hopefully I can break the seal any night now. I've actually knocked out a few hundred words this morning - not much but it's a start.