Recommended for: Anyone old enough to deal with a little self-inflicted guilt
Directions:
1. Set yourself a deadline. Revising 15 pages of your novel every week. One poem every morning. One page of writing -- any kind of writing -- a day. Participate in
NaNoWriMo for the first time.
2. Stop complaining about your kids' sports practices, your job or your homework. Writing comes first. Be like poet
William Stafford or
Newbery Honoree
Cynthia Lord and get up early to write.
3. Stick to it.
4. Need some external motivation via negative reinforcement? Visit:
http://lab.drwicked.com/writeordie.html
Love Stafford and I try, try, try to write each day as he modeled.
ReplyDeleteMe too about Stafford. But writing every day isn't always realistic.
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame, but I have to let it go some days. It takes mental effort (and chocolate) to hold of the self-inflicted guilt about not writing.
Have you tried NaNoWriMo?