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Back at it again!
Oh yes, that’s it!
I am doing another virtual noir at the bar. With the news that my dad wanted to do another noir, came a bit of anxiety and excitement.
Who doesn’t want everything to be perfect, right?
First thing aside from a date, is authors! We need authors and we need them now!
Next is material!
I need something fresh and captivating to bring to the table, now this can be a challenge when you write in bits and pieces on multiple projects, and don’t have a shelf of books to pull from, so I went into panic mode.
But never fear, inspiration and better yet discipline is here!
With the event a little over a week away (I will post a link to the registration page in another post and trust me you don’t want to miss this one), I have the beginnings of a great first chapter of a, dare I say novella or novel, and not to mention ideas for two more projects!
I am stoked!
I get it now.
I am understanding what are my hangups when it comes to sitting down and turning imagined plots and characters into words on the screen. My main roadblock was trying to edit while writing.
Editing while writing doesn’t work for this writer and I found myself so focused on grammatical errors and attending to the annoying red underlined words that the thoughts got lost before I had a chance to type them.
So, I went back old school.
I went back to writing in a notebook. This pulls my attention away from editing while writing and I am not worried about getting everything perfect as it comes out of my head. While I am writing, prefection doesn’t exist for me, instead it is about developing thoughts and putting what’s in my head down in a coherent way.
Now, I will say that having to go back and decipher my hand writing and then type everything into a word doc is a tad bit annoying but this has proven to be very effective to me and my writing that I don’t intend to give it up anytime soon.
Let me know your thoughts and what has been some hangups that you as a writer have had to overcome.
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