When you write something, you must edit your text. NaNoWriMo is all about writing. Forget the self-editing until you finish the first or rough draft done. Then you can revise what you wrote. Established authors say to let the work…
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Scheduling Time for a Large Project
Scheduling time to do a large project is more a case of finding the time to do the smaller pieces that make up the whole. If you are just one person doing the project, it’s easier to schedule the time.…
Tagged with: Project, project pieces, Schedule, scheduled time, scheduling, Time
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Timed Writing
Sometimes when I’m writing, the words just don’t want to come to me. I try to keep writing through those times. I use a variety of methods to get the words out. I often just set a timer and write…
Tagged with: Time, timed writing, timer, timers, Writer's Block, writing, Writing Techniques
Posted in Writing Techniques
Posted in Writing Techniques
Writer’s Block
We’ve all faced it. The blank page with no words at all. Nowhere. It’s writer’s block and it can be scary. It can also be overcome. Notice, I said it could be overcome. I did not say it could easily…
Tagged with: Block, disease, sleep, stress, Time, Write, writer, Writer's Block, writing
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Posted in General Opinion, Writing Techniques
Multitasking
I don’t multitask well. I don’t think anyone really does it well or even at all. Multitasking means doing several tasks at once. This is often impossible. Some things are easy to multitask like doing laundry while writing or even…
Five Minutes
What can you do with five minutes of free time? You can write a little bit. Do some editing. Do a bit of exercising. Think of ideas for parties, stories, or whatever. You can brush your teeth, or hair. You…
Time
Time is a human thing. We humans are obsessed with it. We are ruled by it, at least here in the United States, we are. It’s Big Business that does it. In our quest to make a living, we have…
Tagged with: animals, century, clocks, currency, danger, extinction, growth, human, hunter, life, Money, Mother Nature, person, population, possessions, Time
Posted in General Opinion
Posted in General Opinion
Finding Time to Write
There is one thing I learned last November as I wrote my heart out for NaNoWriMo and that is that my hands are not strong enough to write for two hours straight. As part of my preparations for NaNoWriMo, I…
Me-time/Public-time
I’ve been looking into tweeting, but you need to use your phone to tweet. I don’t have a phone that lets me tweet well, so that’s out. I won’t be that connected. I don’t think I want to be in any case.…
Tagged with: antisocial time, me time, Privacy, public time, social time, Time
Posted in General Opinion
Posted in General Opinion
Time Travel
On TV shows where they have this sort of thing happening, a minute change in the far past has overreaching consequences in the future. Perhaps someone breaks the rules and others get sucked into it by trying to fix the…
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