I get angry at myself when I try to make myself write with timers and other things (750words, Write or Die, word wars, timers), so they totally backfire for me.
I just know I have to write every day, and that if I let it go, it means I will be losing sleep. Once I get myself sitting down and writing, it happens pretty easily, and if I can do it early enough in the day, I can get thousands of words out of it. If I'm sitting down at midnight because I absolutely MUST go to bed, I'll get whatever I'm looking for as a daily wordcount (currently around 500 words - I'm using a yearly wordcount spreadsheet that keeps me on track for my yearly wordcount goals) and that's it.
I find, though, that writing every day is key. Even when I hate doing it, I'm glad I did it. Daily writing practice works for me - I just can't do it with a hard and fast timer, or I get angry. I failed at 750words pretty spectacularly.
I used to have a lot of little tricks. Writing on the bus, for one. That totally used to work for me (my new bus ride is less conducive to this). Writing at work used to work for me too (now I'm too busy - I miss my boring days when I could write 2000 words or more). These days it's just a matter of making sure I write every day and I get a certain number of words a year.
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Date: Monday, January 10th, 2011 19:10 (UTC)I just know I have to write every day, and that if I let it go, it means I will be losing sleep. Once I get myself sitting down and writing, it happens pretty easily, and if I can do it early enough in the day, I can get thousands of words out of it. If I'm sitting down at midnight because I absolutely MUST go to bed, I'll get whatever I'm looking for as a daily wordcount (currently around 500 words - I'm using a yearly wordcount spreadsheet that keeps me on track for my yearly wordcount goals) and that's it.
I find, though, that writing every day is key. Even when I hate doing it, I'm glad I did it. Daily writing practice works for me - I just can't do it with a hard and fast timer, or I get angry. I failed at 750words pretty spectacularly.
I used to have a lot of little tricks. Writing on the bus, for one. That totally used to work for me (my new bus ride is less conducive to this). Writing at work used to work for me too (now I'm too busy - I miss my boring days when I could write 2000 words or more). These days it's just a matter of making sure I write every day and I get a certain number of words a year.