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New writing strategy as I press forward with 50 Shades of Zane Grey. I've broken my chapters up into threes and write in bursts of five pages. Not every chapter comes out to fifteen pages, but close enough. I find that five pages in a separate document limits my bad habit of drifting back to "fix" yesterday's stuff instead of pressing on. When I falter, it's only five pages.
Another plus is I can build mini-arcs into each five page packet, giving me tiny-cliffhangers within each chapter. Five is a very manageable number and I'm not frozen by the thought of how much further I have to go.
There's all kinds of ways of doing things and right now this is mine. I'm encouraged by how fast and how much I'm getting done. So far it beats word count as a daily metric.
Here is your Old West Word of the Day: GAY CAT—I know—defined as one who cases banks and towns for future jobs. (I'm sensing criminal activity here.) How language does change.
2 comments:
Sounds like a good strategy. I've got my own bag of tricks - word count, page count, timed writing, completed act (animation script) - any sort of achievable goal just to distract me from my own congenital inertia and get things rolling. Funny the mind games we writers have to play sometimes isn't it?
Amazing how the mind decides on vital matters that can't wait the minute there's words to write.
Whatever gets the darn thing finished.
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