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 Mon, 14 May 2012 16:33:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: HereBeDragons http://sprinkleofginger.com/how-to-quit-the-procrastinating-and-get-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-1061 HereBeDragons Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:00:47 +0000 http://sprinkleofginger.com/wordpress/?p=107#comment-1061 Ha! Yes yes yes I've found it! THE WEBSITE for people like me who seriously feel they can write. If we try so so so so hard, then, why does it not work!?! Huh? Somebody once said "to write when the fire is in you" I can't. Personally, I firmly believe nobody (with the possible exception of Sir Terry Pratchett, of course) can. Anybody who doesnt admit that their first drafts suck are very self deluded. Ally Condie does, and she rocks. Even if there does seem to be a formula for dystopian books. *sigh* My misson? To write a dystopian fiction novel that is different from everything else. (Just finished the Hunger Games, amazing, if slightly predictable after the parachutes ... ) Also, I haven't started that yet. My ideas are like cheese; they need a long time to mature. I had the idea for my current novel when I was 11. So yeah. I've done pointless research (hello, it's fiction, the whole point is that YOU make it up, right?) nd changed all the characters names at least twice (names are important to me), disposed of charaters, organisations, and created new ones, which are radiclly different (I hope). I've changed the elves' role exactly 9 times. I'm still on the first draft, but I've got a good tip off my friend: edit as you go, and make you're you're pretty happy with each paragraph before writing another. So it's not the fastest writing method (I've been at it for 8 months now), but, with all the ways I've tryed, it's certainly my favourite! Ha! Yes yes yes I’ve found it! THE WEBSITE for people like me who seriously feel they can write. If we try so so so so hard, then, why does it not work!?! Huh? Somebody once said “to write when the fire is in you” I can’t. Personally, I firmly believe nobody (with the possible exception of Sir Terry Pratchett, of course) can. Anybody who doesnt admit that their first drafts suck are very self deluded. Ally Condie does, and she rocks. Even if there does seem to be a formula for dystopian books. *sigh* My misson? To write a dystopian fiction novel that is different from everything else. (Just finished the Hunger Games, amazing, if slightly predictable after the parachutes … ) Also, I haven’t started that yet. My ideas are like cheese; they need a long time to mature. I had the idea for my current novel when I was 11. So yeah. I’ve done pointless research (hello, it’s fiction, the whole point is that YOU make it up, right?) nd changed all the characters names at least twice (names are important to me), disposed of charaters, organisations, and created new ones, which are radiclly different (I hope). I’ve changed the elves’ role exactly 9 times. I’m still on the first draft, but I’ve got a good tip off my friend: edit as you go, and make you’re you’re pretty happy with each paragraph before writing another. So it’s not the fastest writing method (I’ve been at it for 8 months now), but, with all the ways I’ve tryed, it’s certainly my favourite!

]]> 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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