My Writing Process… Writing!
Hello! I get a lot of questions about writing and how I do it, so I thought I'd share my process. Stop what you’re doing because it's time to learn the art of procrastination... Oops! I mean, writing!😜
Writing: And now it’s time! The real art begins! This is where the magic happens… or where a bunch of words strung together into an incoherent sentence happens. It all depends on how much coffee I’ve had that day. While writing the first draft, I try to remember a quote attributed to Ernest Hemingway: “The first draft of anything is shit.” Does that stop me from revising and editing along the way? No, but I try!
As for writing software, I use Word. I don't use other software or websites to write because I like Word.😁 Then I set aside a block of time each day to (figuratively) chain myself to the keyboard and WRITE! It's usually in hour increments. I set a timer for one hour, lock the door to keep out nosy husbands or needy dogs (not that they can open an unlocked door, but you get my point), and I sit and write until the timer goes off. Then I get up, move around a bit, get a drink of water (maybe something stronger if that hour was a b*tch. I'm kidding. Mostly.), and ten minutes later I settle in for another hour session.
It's the first draft, so that hour doesn't have to produce gold, it just has to make enough sense that I can polish it up during the next step: Revisions & Editing! I’ll go over that process in the next week!
Until then, Happy Reading!
