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Jan. 17th, 2013

02:46 am - this is why the first rule is, put your butt in the chair and start typing

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For a night when I really didn't want to start working and whinged and moaned about it and tried to convince myself I could get away with a night off (I really, really can't), those 3500 words sure fell out of my head awfully easy.

Especially given that my aim was only to write 2000 words tonight.

I could take the night off tomorrow, if I wanted. But I need to remember this part is fun, and also that getting the book done sooner rather than later is a good thing.

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From:toddalcott
Date:January 17th, 2013 12:43 pm (UTC)
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A friend of mine once told me "You know what you taught me? It's not enough to talk about writing, you actually have to do it. And then it's not enough to do it, you actually have to finish it. You're not really writing until you finish it." That was one of the nicest things anyone's ever said to me.
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From:swan_tower
Date:January 18th, 2013 11:31 am (UTC)
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Heh. Yeah, funny how you have to actually do the work . . . good to know you got that across to someone.
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From:teleidoplex
Date:January 17th, 2013 05:22 pm (UTC)
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Yeah. One of the hardest lessons I've learned, and really ONLY learned this past year, is that on the days when I'm not feeling it, it's almost always better to write anyways. Sometimes it's crap, but sometimes it's good. And sometimes it only feels like crap, but you go back later and there's something not-crap there.

Glad to hear you had one of the 'sometimes it's good' days :)

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From:swan_tower
Date:January 18th, 2013 11:32 am (UTC)
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Almost always, yeah. The catch is that some nights, it really is better just to say "this isn't working" and leave it for later. (At least, that's true for me.) But I can't actually tell which is which until I try.
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