Rhobin picked a great topic to start off the New Year. What is your favorite time and place to read? How about writing time? Do you have to make time?
Do you have a ritual or is
your plan helter-skelter? I had a quilting teacher who followed the Swiss
cheese method to completing tasks: Make a hole here, and sometime later a hole
there; keep repeating this until the whole thing is complete. What's your
method?
Let’s start with the
easiest first - My favorite time and place to read. Okay, I don’t read as much
as I should or want. I find it difficult to fit it in, but if given a choice I
like to read in the evening. That way, if it’s a great book, I can keep
reading. Favorite place varies with the time of the year. In the warmer weather
it’s on or deck overlooking the lake, with a glass of wine. In the winter it’s
inside in front of the fireplace with a mug of hot chocolate.
Writing time – I try to
write several hours a day. I have to make time and I try to schedule it in for
the week, around appointments and other errands. Usually I try to write to do
an hour or so on marketing and social networking in the morning. (I’m not very
good at it.) Then I do 2-3 hours writing. Sometimes I also write at night for
about 2 hours. I write linearly so I don’t really have a ritual. I grab a cup
of coffee, plunk myself down in front of the computer and start writing from
where I left off the day before. When I start to feel brain dead (or my muse
goes to sleep) I stop writing. I don’t edit until I finish the book. Then my
writing time becomes editing time. I usually try and edit it two or three times
before I send it to my editor/proof reader. Then I edit once or twice more. On
weekends I do blogs. I’m trying to do twitters for the week.
I look forward to seeing
what others say and maybe learning a way that might improve my method,
especially incorporating the marketing and social networking. Off to check
their websites. I hope you will, too.
A.J. Maguire http://ajmaguire.wordpress.com/
Geeta Kakade http://geetakakade.blogspot.com/
Margaret Fieland http://www.margaretfieland.com/blog1/Geeta Kakade http://geetakakade.blogspot.com/
Skye Taylor http://www.skye-writer.com/
Marci Baun http://www.marcibaun.com/
Fiona McGier http://www.fionamcgier.com/
Connie Vines http://connievines.blogspot.com/
Rita Karnopp http://www.mizging@blogspot.com
Rachael Kosnski http://the-doodling-booktease.tumblr.com/
Helena Fairfax http://helenafairfax.com/
Heidi M. Thomas http://heidiwriter.wordpress.com/
Ginger Simpson http://www.cowboykisses.blogspot.com/
Rhobin Courtright http://www.rhobinleecourtright.com/
You seem very methodical, which I kind of expect from a mystery writer. Interesting how we are all very similar but with different quirks!
ReplyDeleteI'm methodical, but I don't always accomplish a lot of useable words. :)
DeleteYou sound far more organized than the person commenting. *lol* I count on my characters to lead me, and when they go mute, I'm hopelessly lost.
ReplyDeleteYour way sounds like more fun, but I don't think I'd get much done that way.
DeleteI love to read in bed before falling asleep but that's also the time I love to write! If only I could do both! Cloning needs to happen quicker!
ReplyDeleteYou write in bed? Reading I understand, but writing. I'd fall asleep before I wrote anything.
DeleteBeverly, mystery writers are organized. I have difficulty keeping my Muse on task.
ReplyDeleteI need one of those signs you have! It's easier to snatch moments to read with the iPad. The last flight I was on seemed to whiz by because I was reading a really interesting book. Now, during basketball games, I will 'snatch' a couple of hours reading while my husband watches TV. More and more doctors' visits give me time to catch up on my magazine reading!
ReplyDeleteIf only the sign worked. :) I like the way you get in your reading. I need to try that and start carrying my eReader with me. Thanks for the tip.
DeleteSorry Beverly, that was from me above. I forgot that the address associated with my first blog is used on ALL blogs, like it or not. I meant to include my name....
ReplyDeleteGeeta
No problem, Geeta. Thanks for dropping by - and the tip.
DeleteI need to be organized or I'd never get anything written. However, my muse doesn't always show up on schedule. :)
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful it must be, to have that much time to write each day! I count the hours I can write in a week, not in a day. Having to work multiple p/t jobs sure takes up a lot of my time. Time that I'd prefer to be writing!
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