Today I actually wrote for a couple of hours on one of my unfinished novels. I think the most rewarding thing about writing is how you feel when you create a new character or you finish a difficult spot. Today I did both. The only thing that was frustrating about it all was that I didn’t have enough time to write longer. I am hoping I will have another day of just writing. I have an outline but today for some reason my characters did something I wasn’t prepared for. Which is okay. Sometimes you just have to go with the flow of the story. I think I read about some authors who don’t even use outlines. Which I would probably go crazy trying to go rogue. So I stick to the outline somewhat not for guidance but more for a suggestion of how the story should end. This is the only method I like to use. So far it seems to work.
Procrastinating
September 8, 2011 by writersobsession
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I don’t like to call it procrastinating! It’s the way I write. I like to think my ideas come in and go out like the tides. Going in means I’m reading like mad and going out means I am writing furiously. There is a little dead space in the middle.
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I think in my case it is procrastinating. Mainly because I know I should be writing but I will do something else to fill up my time. Putting things off till the last minute is procrastinating for me.
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