I have let so much of my time get away from me (life has been busy, I’ll blog about it later) but it’s again time to get back to a schedule and start writing and publishing in a timely manner. sorry for my absence blog readers, and I hope this cartoon makes you chuckle. After all, this is the writing life isn’t it?
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Ha! I was just making coffee before writing. By the way, I started a storyboard of the Monster story and am taking cartooning workshops all summer so I am motivated and in the groove. After some coffee that is… 😉
Sounds like me too! Incidentally, I did publish 10 pages yesterday…for the first time in half a year! Lol. Fortunately, I woke up at 430 and couldn’t go back to sleep, so I turned on pandora and stole some words from the singers! 😉
This cartoon captures my writing struggles as well … one technique that has worked for me is to write at least 500 words per day (which comes to about one single-spaced page) on the theory that “a page a day makes a book a year” … I also start my writing very early in the morning (when my baby and wife are still sleeping) before I check my emails or run any errands, which always end up subverting my writing flow … sometimes, I establish a good flow and end up writing more than 500 words, but at least I get that page done …by the way, I also like to reward myself with an espresso when I write my 500 words …
Oh, I love this so much!
Lol, it’s almost sad how much I can relate to this!
This is why I aim to write for a time period rather than page count. (doesn’t always work)
It’s troublesome how procrastination can sneak up on writers, (or any creator really). The last few days are a blurred attempt to return to scripting and it just HAS NOT HAPPENED! The truth is though, if I don’t do it, I never should have started.
so I will finish! Right after this muffin!
Habits are the key. More here: http://www.brainpickings.org. Tales of writers’ tricks throughout history. The model becomes more of success than lack of success, and the patterns are good to copy.