http://comeunitypress.com/2007/11/06/my-leap-year-small-step-6/ Writer Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://comeunitypress.com/2007/11/06/my-leap-year-small-step-6/#comment-171 My Leap Year: Small Steps 20-21 « Caleb Monroe Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:06:43 +0000 http://calebmonroe.com/2007/11/06/my-leap-year-small-step-6/#comment-171 [...] Comments My Leap Year: Small ... on My Leap Year: Small Step 6...Caleb Monroe on My Leap Year: Small Steps 18-1...Prem on You Should Be Reading This: Al...Mom on My [...] [...] Comments My Leap Year: Small … on My Leap Year: Small Step 6…Caleb Monroe on My Leap Year: Small Steps 18-1…Prem on You Should Be Reading This: Al…Mom on My [...]

]]> http://comeunitypress.com/2007/11/06/my-leap-year-small-step-6/#comment-170 My Leap Year: Small Steps 20-21 « Caleb Monroe Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:05:25 +0000 http://calebmonroe.com/2007/11/06/my-leap-year-small-step-6/#comment-170 [...] Of course, I didn’t write today, either. Except for those first two days, I’m having a real tough time with these early mornings. I’ve observed in the past that, left to my own devices, I tend to write most naturally between 2 and 6 in the afternoon. But my shifts at work either end at 6 or start at 2, so obviously that won’t work. As I was thinking the situation over in the shower this morning (I do a lot of great thinking in the shower), I remembered another passage from the same John Rogers interview I referred to a couple weeks ago: [...] [...] Of course, I didn’t write today, either. Except for those first two days, I’m having a real tough time with these early mornings. I’ve observed in the past that, left to my own devices, I tend to write most naturally between 2 and 6 in the afternoon. But my shifts at work either end at 6 or start at 2, so obviously that won’t work. As I was thinking the situation over in the shower this morning (I do a lot of great thinking in the shower), I remembered another passage from the same John Rogers interview I referred to a couple weeks ago: [...]

]]> http://comeunitypress.com/2007/11/06/my-leap-year-small-step-6/#comment-151 Caleb Monroe Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:17:40 +0000 http://calebmonroe.com/2007/11/06/my-leap-year-small-step-6/#comment-151 If I start making full playlists, then I get too sucked in to what I'm doing and suddenly I'm not writing anymore...I'm making playlists. I'm good enough at distracting myself without adding to it. So just the one trigger song for me right now. But let me know how your own experiments fare. If I start making full playlists, then I get too sucked in to what I’m doing and suddenly I’m not writing anymore…I’m making playlists. I’m good enough at distracting myself without adding to it. So just the one trigger song for me right now. But let me know how your own experiments fare.

]]> http://comeunitypress.com/2007/11/06/my-leap-year-small-step-6/#comment-150 Prem Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:44:40 +0000 http://calebmonroe.com/2007/11/06/my-leap-year-small-step-6/#comment-150 I really like this idea of mental triggers. I read "Comic Writers on Script-writing for Comics" (or whatever the weird title for it was) a few weeks back and Devin Grayson did it a bit differently. She actually created play lists for the different types of writing she did. I think both these ideas are very useful, and only trial and error can perfect it, but I think it'd be something I could integrate into my own writing habits. I really like this idea of mental triggers. I read “Comic Writers on Script-writing for Comics” (or whatever the weird title for it was) a few weeks back and Devin Grayson did it a bit differently.
She actually created play lists for the different types of writing she did.
I think both these ideas are very useful, and only trial and error can perfect it, but I think it’d be something I could integrate into my own writing habits.

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