Week One Pep Talk&Short Exercise
March 8th 2010 12:21
The first few days of March have passed, and the first full week of March is about to begin. You may not be where you wanted to be, but remember that there's still most of a month left.
You might also be frustrated with the big picture problems of your first draft. If you find yourself dreading the words and dreading the work, while you look through the badly written parts that you've figured out, try to find things that you like. Great scenes, great description, real emotion, realistic characterization. Underline those parts or at least make a note of them. You'll find yourself liking your work more, and you'll find that rewriting what you don't like will come to you more easily.
Try to schedule your editing time for the next week, and making plans of exactly what you want done by the end of the week. Don't get too down if you don't make one of your scheduled editing times; life gets in the way sometimes, and you've still got most of the month ahead of you. Find little times to write; part of your lunch hour, any travel time if you can do it, breaks during work or between classes. It adds up.
And if you feel like you're alone-don't worry, I'm behind on my work too.
~Dianna
You might also be frustrated with the big picture problems of your first draft. If you find yourself dreading the words and dreading the work, while you look through the badly written parts that you've figured out, try to find things that you like. Great scenes, great description, real emotion, realistic characterization. Underline those parts or at least make a note of them. You'll find yourself liking your work more, and you'll find that rewriting what you don't like will come to you more easily.
Try to schedule your editing time for the next week, and making plans of exactly what you want done by the end of the week. Don't get too down if you don't make one of your scheduled editing times; life gets in the way sometimes, and you've still got most of the month ahead of you. Find little times to write; part of your lunch hour, any travel time if you can do it, breaks during work or between classes. It adds up.
And if you feel like you're alone-don't worry, I'm behind on my work too.
~Dianna
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