Okay, I'll start off by first saying mine's not missing. The truth is, for the past week I've sent her on vacation.
Since I turned in my revisions on Sept. 10, I haven't written a thing on my current work-in-progress. I had a conference call with my editor on Sept. 17 and I'm ready to work and I plan to start this weekend. I did shoot my editor a few ideas for what I'd like to do after this current book (and that next NASCAR book I have to write in between).
Different people write differently and we've had this discussion on our author loop before. I'm a writer who writes in spurts. I wrote 100 pages in one weekend once. There are weeks when I won't even look at what I'm writing, much less work on it. I'm not one of those people who sets a daily goal and gets in the chair daily. I'm one of those who needs large blocks of time to truly immerse myself in the story and focus only on it--so much that the rest of the world disappears. That means I do hours at a time. I also get most of it out, and then tweak it later in thirds.
So as I posted today--getting ready for a Saturday marathon, I wanted to remind you that there's no one way to write. It's whatever works best for you--and your relationship with your personal muse. I like to give mine time off so she's not so crabby when we do those 12 hour shifts.
So how do you write?
Michele
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I'm not quite sure what kind of writer I am, yet... Used to be I'd get a spark of inspiration for something and then write on it until I ran out of steam (and it was usually for good), but just last month I tried one of those writing challenges, you know, write a 50,000 word novel in a month. I wrote a bit every day, and I really enjoyed it (most days!). I haven't written much this month, my noodle seems to need a break... but I'm thinking of going to do NaNoWriMo when the time comes around :)
Daily. I write a few hours each morning, edit a few hours each night. It works for me. :)
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