Well, not quite. It was 15.
First read her essay “How I Went From Writing 2,000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a Day”. Now read about her 12 day triumph in “12 Days of Glory”.
Amen on the pre-writing! I’d be lost without it. LOST. Sketching out scenes beforehand makes them SO MUCH EASIER to write. I can focus on the delivery, characters, dialogue, etc. instead of the events. It frees my creativity to focus on other things. Sketching out a novel beforehand does the same for the whole book. I have a simple sketch of the scene I’m going to write today. There’s no dithering about what to write. I KNOW what I need to write. So I do another more detailed sketch, the pre-writing for the scene before I jump into the day’s work. When I get the scene in my mind, the draft comes so much more quickly.
Amen on time! I’ve found my mind is like a furnace: it takes time to get hot, and if I only dedicatetake small chunks of time, I’m forever warming it up. When I get 3-4 hours a day, I far more productive on a per hour basis than when I only get one.
Amen on enthusiasm! There’s nothing worse than trying to write something that bores me. I can’t do it. And her little method for reviewing scenes is very similar to what I do.
Great posts, Rachel! Now I just need to get back into my dedicated time groove.
John, thanks for sharing this. I love her analytical approach to addressing the problem of productivity. This takes the whole BICHOK thing to the next level.
As always, I’m left wondering: where do you get all these great links? Thanks again for sharing!
ESP, that’s how I get them
I envy you that. 🙂 I’d love to see your full bookmark list. Have a great day.
I don’t know what led me there, actually. But I read Kris Rusch’s and Konrath’s blog regularly. Then I get mediabistro, publishers weekly, and publishers marketplace emailed to me. I review the USA Today weekly best seller list each week. And I’ll drop in on other various spots.