Comments on: How to quit the procrastinating and get writing http://sprinkleofginger.com/how-to-quit-the-procrastinating-and-get-writing/ A head for adventures Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:57:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Yolande http://sprinkleofginger.com/how-to-quit-the-procrastinating-and-get-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Yolande Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:46:31 +0000 http://sprinkleofginger.com/wordpress/?p=107#comment-19 I completely agree re: first drafts! You just have to do something, anything, to stop your page looking like a white void. That's often the hardest part. Thanks for all these great tips! I completely agree re: first drafts! You just have to do something, anything, to stop your page looking like a white void. That’s often the hardest part.
Thanks for all these great tips!

]]> By: Ella http://sprinkleofginger.com/how-to-quit-the-procrastinating-and-get-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Ella Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:22:18 +0000 http://sprinkleofginger.com/wordpress/?p=107#comment-8 I hear you on the deadline factor. It's strange though -- often I find that the faster I write, the better the result. Perhaps it's because when time is tight I write the way I talk, and it's easier to read than some highfalutin wannabe-worthy prose. Deadlines also make me feel tingly. I can see how news journalists get a rush after submitting a killer story. I hear you on the deadline factor. It’s strange though — often I find that the faster I write, the better the result. Perhaps it’s because when time is tight I write the way I talk, and it’s easier to read than some highfalutin wannabe-worthy prose.

Deadlines also make me feel tingly. I can see how news journalists get a rush after submitting a killer story.

]]> By: Nick http://sprinkleofginger.com/how-to-quit-the-procrastinating-and-get-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Nick Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:57:13 +0000 http://sprinkleofginger.com/wordpress/?p=107#comment-7 The hardest thing about writing for myself, I find, is not having a deadline. All my life I've written to deadlines, and without that scorching breath on my neck I just can't make my mind move. The hardest thing about writing to a deadline, though, is not handing in the first draft - getting something done and having the time to go back to it is all but unthinkable for me. Maybe I'm just lazy. The hardest thing about writing for myself, I find, is not having a deadline. All my life I’ve written to deadlines, and without that scorching breath on my neck I just can’t make my mind move. The hardest thing about writing to a deadline, though, is not handing in the first draft – getting something done and having the time to go back to it is all but unthinkable for me.

Maybe I’m just lazy.

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