Really short and sweet post today…
I just came across the following poster from copyblogger. It’s quite pertinent for me at the moment as I try to finish-the-hell-out-of-this cursed, er, fantastically wonderful novel. Yeah.
Stuff to remember…
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Sooo… What do you think, fellow wordslingers? My favourite is rule number 6.
Do you need to print this out and pin it on your wall? I sure do! And I’m gonna. Right now.
(Although not sure about the ink and the paper… would web-disabled computer work instead?)
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E V Gregory 
Pretty good rules, although I think #2 is going to be a bit difficult while I’m taking a physics class. I’ll probably have to settle for writing when I don’t feel like it if I want to get anything done.
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They do say that is the difference between a pro and an amateur… I suppose the trick is to discover methods of finding the right frame of mind when you need it.
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I think I like #4 the best – let your imagination go to weird places. I tend to decide quickly on a plot, when maybe I should play with things more, just to see what will happen.
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Yeah, I hear you. I’m the same, always wanting to control things too much.
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The rules are great. Thanks for sharing! I would really love to get to #9 and #10 😉
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Wouldn’t we all, Kim!
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I adhere to rule #4, but it’s later and my mess is yet to be cleaned up.
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That’s the great thing about ‘later’; it can come at any time. 🙂
I need to work on rule 4 probably…
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Awesome rules!!!
My favorite is #4, something I do anyway, which means I get a lot of rewriting and figuring after the draft is written. But that’s how my brain works.
I also love #6. LOL.
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Rule #4 is something I aspire to. I really need to work at ‘letting go’ and not worrying so much about whether it’s going to work. I second-guess myself a lot.
Rule #6 is awesome, because right now my first draft WIP looks like it was written by a lunatic! 😀
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I hear you. My first drafts are the same.
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The one that jumped out at me right away? #6 You know how I love a good letter. 😉
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Certainly we do, Tami! Not that we’ve seen any letters from B recently… I also like the alliteration in this rule ~ heh.
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I like these rules…especially # 3 and 6.
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Because if you write yourself silly it will end up looking like a letter from a lunatic? Of course!
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#6 and #7 are near and dear to me in the First Draft stage. But that’s where revisions come in. I loved Anne Lamont’s chapter on Shitty First Drafts in her book Bird by Bird.
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Sounds like I need to read that book. I do struggle with allowing the first draft to be crap – even though it invariably is whether I ‘let’ it or not!
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Also, on stealing stylistically, I find myself doing this unwittingly sometimes if I’ve been reading something I admire! Funny.
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It’s the same for me. I don’t intentionally “steal”, something “similar” to something I’ve read pours out in the flow. I totally revised those sections later, but at first I was horrified. Especially when I realized I’d even used the “same names” as were in the book I’d read.
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That just shows you were tapping your subconscious! I need to embrace that more.
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