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Getting Started (Tues and Fri's assignments in one) |
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Written by Samantha Fenner
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Monday, 14 January 2008 06:00 |
Here's this Tues assignment - it's different. You track for 3 days and
write on the 4th - which is Fri. So I suggest, that we do the actually
writing for this assignment as our Fri assignment.
Sam
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Where do you have pockets of time? Nowhere? Then what can you give up?
For two or three days track how you spend your time. Set you timer for
fifteen minutes and write about how you spend you time. Write down how
much time you spend watching TV, movies, and videos or talking on the
phone. How much time do you spend with friends? What about running
errands, doing chores, reading magazines, cooking? Now write about how
you can borrow time and use it to write. For instance, instead of
running errands when they come up, perhaps you could clump them and do
them on one day. And if you're the cook of the family, enlist others'
help or do a lot of cooking on one day and freeze meals for later in the
week.
Somewhere during your day you have at least fifteen minutes you can
use to write. Start there. Try first thing in the morning, last thing at
night. When are you the most lucid? The most creative? See what works.
Ayelet Waldman, author of /Daughter's Keeper/ and the Mommy Track
mystery series, and her husband, Michael Chabon, author of /The Amazing
Adventurers of Kavalier and Clay/ , have a brood of kids so occasionally
while one writes the other sleeps or takes car of the little ones.
When writers are on deadline or immersed in a project, they become
rather solitary figures out of necessity, otherwise the work would never
get done. I f you need to pull way back, to start taking time, do it.
And don't feel guilty about it. Once you're on your way, you'll get to
revert back, a little bit, anyway, to the gregarious creature you were.
Ready, set, GO!
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