(April 5, 2024 at 2:15 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: What I want to do is just write. But, naturally, I'm my own person who can't do things as others do them. They might be able to have day jobs and still write, but for me the motivation to write is lost when I have to destress after a shift.
When I wrote books I have, I wasn't working at the time.
Harlan Ellison - who knew a bit about this sort of thing - said the secret to writing is to write something every day. It doesn’t mean churning out a hundred pages of dialogue, or even a single scene. Write a title. Write a short character description. Write just the last sentence of a short story.
(That’s a paraphrase. I’m sure his original advice was liberally sprinkled with the word ‘cocksucker’.)
Boru
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