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This week: Pace Yourself Edited by: NaNoNette  
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Pace Yourself
Find the writing rhythm that works best for you.
You may have heard it before like a permanent refrain that tries to get stuck in your mind: write every day.
What if writing every day doesn't work for your schedule? your creativity? your energy levels?
Find the writing schedule that actually works for your own unique situation. Take a look at your weekly or monthly schedule. When do you work, eat, sleep, enjoy the outdoors, and spend time with your family? Obviously, all of those times are blocked out from writing. In between those times that are blocked out, you can find hours or minutes to dedicate to writing.
Let's say you found out that Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday evening are the best times for writing. Make those times part of your steady schedule. Just how you have to go to work or fulfill other obligations, make writing at those times your obligation.
What if you have a Tuesday evening off, but it's not in your schedule to write? You can go about it two ways:
1. If the muse is breathing down your neck and those words want to spew forward, by all means sit down and write.
2. Just how you wouldn't go to work when you're not scheduled to work, find something else to do with your time on Tuesday night. Catch a movie, go for a walk, meet a friend. Anything you do on that Tuesday that isn't writing will enrich your life and therefore your writing when it's time to write.
Give it a try and let me know in the comment box below if this works for you.
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For my last For Authors newsletter "Three Rules" , I got the following replies:
brom21  wrote: I found W. Somerset Maugham's comment insightful and humorous. And thanks for the example from Harry Potter. It was quite useful! Gotta get each of these points into my works. Thanks for the info!
Thank you for reading and I'm happy that the information is useful to you.
Quick-Quill  wrote: I love this NL. For newbies this is the simplest form to follow. You explained it in such a way that if the reader had never read HP or seen the movies, they would know what you are referring to.
Thank you for telling me that it was easy to follow even without knowing the Harry Potter works.
hbk16 wrote: These are some very interesting advice which can help when writing a novel.Nowadays, and most often, novels become stereotyped.Usually, when I read a novel I guess what can be the end.Writing becomes in this kind of style,frequently a routine and there is a lack of originality, personal creation and authenticity.
It's true that there are many novels that appear to follow a set schematic and they hardly ever veer off from it. As a writer, you can only hope that your characters are so engaging that the reader wants to be along for the ride, even if parts of it are predictable.
Zeke wrote: This is very interesting and helpful advice.
Thank you for reading and commenting.
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