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December 7, 2013

Let’s talk Nanowrimo a little while longer

Did you take part in Nanowrimo? So what was your experience? Are you the one who has come away chest puffed out with pride, a swagger in your walk and brimming with confidence in your writing? Or are you the one who’d run away screaming if the word happened to be mentioned within your hearing?


Here is what I came away with from taking part in Nanowrimo.


First, I think it’s worth taking part in it and yes, I think every writer should, if only as an exercise in disciplined writing. There’s nothing like it in putting writing to the forefront of your mind and not just let it be one of the things in your to-do list, as it happens to become. Even the most dedicated writers find ways to get distracted in today’s world, all too easy, at least for me, so enrolling in a must-do competition is definitely profitable to your productiveness.


The important lessons I took from Nanowrimo, and in winning it – yes, didn’t I mention I made it? well, I did :) – are these :


Muse was no longer moody


This was one of the surprises Nano sprung on me. At around the midway point I was doing it half-heartedly, not sure I could do it with the things I had on my schedule. I was around 13k words in and I thought this was the moment when I had to either really try or let go of it and attend to ‘life’. So making a decision, I got to it, with no clear planning of the story. A wonder happened. Instead of my muse retreating under pressure, it became like tiger with a prey. Let me at him. Words came easier the more I progressed, failry spilling onto the screen till the keyboard chatter became music to my ears. Well, sort of. It felt nice to say ;)


Random things put in tied up


Miracles happened. What else could I call it? I hadn’t the faintest idea about the end of the story. Then the last day a light bulb moment occurred to devise the end. I just put in something random like khanabdosh ie gypsies - can’t get more random than that, can you – and it yielded result. It tied in perfectly with the hero’s plan and also made the hero action oriented. The pieces just fell in place.


Didn’t make time, generated it 


That’s what it felt like. I began to look for writing moments actively and scribble away whenever I got time. I wrote no matter what, charged by coffee, comforted by chocolate. I wouldn’t say I got disciplined because that means being organised in your whole day. which I definitely wasn’t. But giving no attention to the daily hassles of everyday world, which did a fade out as soon as my fingers touched the keyboard, I was off. And getting lost in make-believe felt better and better. Though, it isn’t what I can afford to do every month or even every other month, for getting writing done in heaps, it works.


Cheers count a lot


I learnt that company matters. The online group writing sprints, or just catching up and reporting progress, it all helps. Accountability is the trigger of discipline after all. If you have folks cheering you on, nothing better. In fact I couldn’t have made it without my Wrimo group friends egging me on.Thanks, folks! :)


So what’s your take on Nanowrimo? Should or shouldn’t? Did you attempt? If you didn’t, why not. What are the advantages or disadvantages of Nanowrimo? If you had taken part, would you do it again next year? Why or why not? Let’s talk Nanowrimo for a little longer…


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Published on December 07, 2013 23:58

November 25, 2013

Keep calm Nanowrimoers, it’s not 30th Nov yet!

To motivate the Nanowrimo participants, I’ve posted this on the Wrimo India blog. Read on…


So you’ve taken the leap into the giant wok of Nanowrimo and now find yourself floundering in the slippery oil of written – and unwritten- words. All around you, people are announcing they have crossed the mark, causing the pressure to mount as though you are the last wicket of Team India on the crease, required to score a winning six. A difficult but not impossible task. So keep calm. Not the count-to-ten type of keep calm. Rather, take a deep breath, roll up your sleeves and get typing. Yes, buddy, this is no time to be complacent!


Before we discuss the strategies which might help us go on, let’s examine why we lose our cool in this war of words J


Causes of panic


Help! I didn’t save my file The very top-of-the-list problem. And the most dangerous. It’s one of the things easy to know in theory and far easier to forget in practice. Nowadays you have a number of ways to backup. Dropbox. Pen drives. Hard disk storage. Even easier to do, just email the work to yourself. Back up, back up, back up…should be your hourly or rather every minute mantra!


My Muse has absconded! Muses are so apt to do that. Just when you need them the most. Though you might wish to, you can’t catch and bring back your Muse by scruff of his/her neck. The blank screen is the writer’s arch enemy but you have to find a way to beat it. One sure way is to read over what you’ve written and find that link, that off shoot that you forgot to explore. Now is the time to blend that loose thread in your story and make it stronger. Maybe your character left an old job to take up the current position. So why did she leave it? Get to the reason and it might show you a side of your character you never thought existed. Now you can write with a deeper understanding of your character.


For more ways to beat the writer’s block, check out this post from me.


Inner editor has woken up! The Inner Editor. Visualize Skeletor. Doctor Doom. Mahishasura. Inner editor is the enemy of the state for Nanowrimo-ers. There is only one weapon to tackle it. Only one word. IGNORE. Or prepare for your Nano winning dream to crash. This is not the time to worry about inserting the proper synonym or tempering your excessive adverb indulgence. Whether you write ‘walk quickly’ or ‘run’, just describe the action and get on with it. December is for fussing over things like that.


Now the positive steps to take to win this race. Read the rest of the post here.

So how do you motivate yourself or others in writing? Comments are always welcome.


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Published on November 25, 2013 08:48

November 22, 2013

Cover reveal – You Can’t Fight A Royal Attraction

I’m jumping with excitement on receiving my second book’s cover art. Thanks so much to Harlequin who have outdone themselves…yes, I think so at all costs! If you’re on my facebook or twitter network you can’t have missed it, because I was shrieking for joy posting it all over the place :) For those who haven’t had a look, here it is.


EE19 COVER_1Isn’t it fab? Excuse me while I dance a jig!


I love, love, love the mood which is exactly in tune with my characters Rihaan and Saira. Can’t wait to have the book in my hands…and of course the readers’ hands.


Now that I’ve got all over your nerves, will quieten and step down…


…though please keep the spotlight on the pic for a wee while yet!


:)


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Published on November 22, 2013 23:14

Book Review – The Indian Tycoon’s Marriage deal by Adite Banerjie

Blurb


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Krish Dev needs to find a bride—and quick! With a marriage arranged by his father looming, Krish finds the key to his freedom in Maya Shome, but is this dazzling beauty really all she seems…?

Maya has only one thing in mind: revenge. But when the host of the most exclusive high society party asks her to dance what is meant to be an innocent tango leads to an engagement to Krish—her enemy’s son!

Arranging their own marriage could work to their advantage…if they can resist mixing business with pleasure!


The story is a Mills and Boon romance, set in India with Indian characters. It revolves around the two protagonists Maya and Krish and the theme of revenge. Maya has a grudge against Krish’s father who ruined her father and thereby made her childhood a misery. Krish on the other hand wants to fight free of his father’s domination. Both meet with different agendas in mind but find it hard to resist each other.


I love Adite’s writing style and descriptions. She has a racy way of telling the tale which makes the book a quick read. The heroine has suffered in her life and one really feels for her. All the typical Harlequin elements are present so it’s a treat for Mills and Boon Indian readers. The hero isn’t as Alpha as you usually see in category romance, he’s quite human and has his share of flaws as he fights the domineering father quite vividly portrayed in the story.


Read this for racy style, strong descriptions and Indian characters.


I give Adite’s debut five stars for readability (hooking the reader), four stars for concept and a good take away impression.


Have you read this book? Do you read Mills and Boon or other romances and have you tried any of the Mills and Boon Indian author books?  Tell me about your favourite romantic story in the comments.


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Published on November 22, 2013 22:29

November 17, 2013

Book Review – To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee

To Kill A Mocking Bird, the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Harper Lee, published in 1960 is acclaimed as a classic in American literature. I read it as the story of innocence jumping into sometimes brutally indigestible wisdom. It takes you on a journey into childhood that says however secluded you are, you learn things or have them blown into your face. It deals with racial injustice but from such an entrancing point of view that you’re lured into the narrative.


It made me look inwards and around and realize how great a load of prejudices we do carry and how variety of prejudices have been imbibed way deep into the society so that sometimes it is bypassed and even taken as a matter of course. The more we grow, the more immune we become.  However, the book gives you also the fatalistic life goes on and even a silver lining ending and the  hope for change. All this melds with the child’s growing up and learning that you can be a participant and if you have someone who can guide you the right way you can take something away from it and gel back into the world you live in.


The only thing I found difficult to contend with in this book was the somewhat meandering pace. Yes, it was faithful to its story world and characters.But very difficult to wade through at least in the first half. Since the blurb didn’t give any hint of the main characters, I had to leaf through and find out if the story concerned their childhood only or somewhere they were going to enter adulthood. Yes, I’m impatient but it helped me fit the story into a time frame so I could settle back to read once I knew where it was headed. After the middle though it really took off and in the end was satisfying. You know like when you press a button and expect to hear a click. The click was right in place. Though I wouldn’t have minded reading about a sequel in which they were all grown up. All the characters were riveting. Though I applauded his way of dealing with the kids’ curiosity, I did find Atticus a hard parent but then me being  a slightly overprotective mom, maybe I was bound to do that.


In short, it’s a story faithful to the theme and delivering a thumping point in a gentle telling.


I give it three stars for hooking the reader (readability), five stars on concept, five star for my takeaway impression.

If you want a book to make you think and touch your heart, go for this.


If you’ve read it, what was your impression? Did you like Atticus and uphold his parental policies? Did you find the first half difficult to get through like me? :) Do share your views, would love to hear!


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Published on November 17, 2013 03:32

November 4, 2013

Meet Tanu Jain, Indian author for Harlequin

Hi everyone! Today I have Tanu Jain, the newest Indian author for Harlequin, on my blog. Let’s get to know her through a question and answer session.



Hi Tanu! Tell us something about yourself and how you got into writing?

Thank you, Ruchi for featuring me on your blog.  It’s great to meet a fellow writer.


I have been creating stories since childhood though most of them have never seen the light of the day! I am a die-hard romantic and have always been an avid Mills and Boon fan. About five years ago, having checked out the submission guidelines on the internet, I decided I would write a Mills and Boon and got down to work. My first attempt was about a Greek hero and an English heroine and predictably, it was rejected by the editors. By then the characters of my present book, Gauri and Vikram had insidiously crept upon me and they made me write their story. I sent it off hoping against hope because till then Harlequin hadn’t begun publishing the Indian theme romances. I waited for a year and then to my joyous shock got the confirmatory email from the editor.  Seeing my name on that little blue book is a dream come true.


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Your experience of writing a book – easy as pie or hard as nails?

“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”

It’s been a long journey and there have been times of despair as well as times of joy but at the end of the day the contentment of reading what one has written, the joy of sharing a part of oneself is what gives meaning to life.



What motivates you to write?

I think it’s a matter of one’s passion. Imagining, writing and expressing are as necessary as breathing and that is the sole spur required.


As A. Pope says,


“On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail,


Reason the card, but passion the gale.”


Stories beg to be told, characters clamour to come out and on a lighter note, I would like to emphasise that not paying heed to them can prove detrimental to one’s health.



How do you overcome writer’s block?

I sit down with my children and watch whatever they are watching on television — a movie, English series or cartoon film!



Does writing get in your way of life?

Writing is in fact what de stresses me,  enlivens and keeps me going.



What inspired “His Captive Indian Princess”?

Our country has an extremely rich cultural history and love stories of our kings and queens and royal love legends have always fascinated me. On one of my excursions to an ancient fort the heroine of my book, Gauri careened into my musings and I could almost espy Vikram the hero who was heading towards us in a relentless pursuit. I decided I would give them a happy ending and now that their conflicts have been resolved they can be seen strolling around the same fort, ecstatically, hand in hand. J



Please describe your book briefly.

The blurb…


Banished from her dynastic family home by her grandmother, Gauri Rao has lived under the weight of scandal. But now her past has come back to find her in the shape of deliciously handsome and dangerously powerful Vikram Singh. With the Rao family in tatters, Vikram has promised Gauri’s father he will track down his daughter and bring her back – at all costs. Yet somehow, the naïve girl who ran away has blossomed into an independent woman. Vikram is not used to taking no for an answer… has he finally met his match?


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Tell us about the main characters in your book.

The heroine Gauri  is the illegitimate daughter of the erstwhile ruler of Mogragarh, Maharaj Sambhaji Rao. She has faced many trials and tribulations in her life. The hero Vikramaditya Singh also belongs to royalty and he is the heroine’s brother’s best friend. He too had an unhappy and tragic childhood. The protagonists thus, know each other since childhood and practically grow up together.  But they are barely able to tolerate each other and end up fighting most of the time. But beneath their dislike and irritation a mutual attraction simmers. “His Captive Indian Princess” traces their journey as they become aware of their mutual passion and overcome their prejudices, grow as human beings, gain self knowledge and surmount obstacles to find a happy ending.



What’s next in your writing plans?

I’m frantically trying to finish my second book.


Thanks so much for your visit, Tanu and also for regaling us with the nice quotes. Enjoyed getting to know about you and your book. 


You can get in touch with her at:


tanurja@yahoo.com

You can buy the book at :


www.Hqnindia.com

www.infibeam.com

books.rediff.com

www.flipkart.com


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Published on November 04, 2013 07:32

October 28, 2013

Book blurb – You Can’t Fight A Royal Attraction

My second book with Harlequin will be out soon!! And I have the yummiest book blurb to tempt the readers with…do excuse but I absolutely think so :) Excuse me while I hop, skip and dance away in crazy enthusiasm…


Oh well, I’m back and here’s the blurb I had to share :D


Playing with fire. Who says it isn’t fun?


The last thing Rihaan needs in his life is to play host to a woman who drives him crazy! Saira is gorgeous, yes, but she’s also wildly infuriating. Yet every time she comes within an inch of him he finds his normally iron-clad control slipping further and further away…


Wanting to protect herself from more heartbreak, Saira knows she should keep her distance from Rihaan —but there’s something about him she just can’t seem to resist… Little does she know that Rihaan is hiding a secret! When it comes to light will it tear them apart —or raise their passion to new, more majestic heights?


It’s coming out in December. Click here to add it to your Want-To-Read on Goodreads.



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Published on October 28, 2013 22:34

Platinum day of love

This is my post for the contest Platinum Day of Love


They say love grows – which seems to mean it increases as it becomes older. It doesn’t. How can it – if you already love a person to the fullest? But it matures. It blooms. It can give you happiness like the flowering vine peeking out from between the hard hewn rocks of the daily work-burdened life. Of course sometimes it’s difficult for the delicate vine of love to find its way among the rocks, just as love is difficult to nurture when you are just too busy meeting the demands of day-to-day life including making a living.


After long years of marriage, the initial golden glow wears off. A routine sets in. And you know routines are boring. Life becomes humdrum after the endless repeating of the same pattern. Work, then home, then kids, then again work at home. It goes on in the same re-run. Dealing with the inevitable challenges at the job and bringing up kids who are at times difficult; or any other obstacle to the routine, can really sap your strength.


This year I was facing such a day. It was Valentine’s day. We do believe in Valentine’s day but in the morning, my husband and I hardly had time to wish each other. My husband, a doctor, was working out of the city at that time at a hospital, dealing with over seventy patients per day. I too had my usual busy day. I was used to his coming home late and then he would still be busy, taking care of some admissions plus phone calls from various places etc. It was hectic. I wasn’t expecting anything special. But after dinner, he insisted on taking me out though it was quite late, the roads were almost deserted. But he found a florist who was still open. Painstakingly choosing the freshest blooms, he got for me a most colourful bouquet. Red, peach, pink and yellow, the roses combined to form a heartwarming display and lend their fragrance into my life. The simple gesture meant a lot to me – yes, I’m a sentimental fool – I guess most women are. The thought behind his gesture and the effort, spoke more to me than any valuables money could buy. While returning he went to an open aampapar shop and got aampapar, the dried mango mash, sweet and sour varieties and tamarind rounds. I thought as I savoured the taste that the sour has to complement the sweet. After all we just can’t enjoy only one flavour. And when the sweetness comes after the sourness, it’s all the more treasured.


This is my submission for platinum day of love contest. Yes, love can find you – in the most unexpected ways. The same unexpected way did hubby steal my heart again that day.


Why platinum? Because it’s as timeless, shimmering and as resistant to corrosion of daily wear and tear as true love. 


Ciao!



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Published on October 28, 2013 22:15

October 17, 2013

Five Ways to get past the Writer’s Block

This is an edited post from my old blog. Thought it might be useful for those having one of those days in writing.  So read on…


When words won’t come…


A writer is most happy writing. Yet sometimes our jobs, family life or even writing schedules become so humdrum that words are difficult to put down. Even more likely, the words are there but the will to capture and put them down in proper order just isn’t. This last happens to me more often than not. I can happily daydream perfect sentences and even scenes in my head but when it comes to putting them on paper or the keyboard, it seems too much like work! There is no FUN that writing is supposed to be. So what do we do when we need to get the words from our head to our fingers? Or even get them forming in our head, when creativity just seems as elusive as rain in an Indian summer.

First is it a block? A rock which can’t be got over? Or just a pebble you are looking at from very close up?

Are you making too much of a minor problem? Are you just tired ? That’s the first thing which dries up the drive to write. A good night’s rest or playing hookie from writing if you don’t have a deadline looming can do the trick. It’s very well to tell ourselves we must be regular but Sunday was made for a reason, you know. New experiences, meeting friends, even cooking a new recipe, trying out a new eating place, can all get you away from dwelling too much on your frustrations. Distract yourself from the problem. It has the scientific basis of freeing our synapses from impulse overload so that transmission can resume without the offending psychological fatigue. The reference of psychological fatigue brings us to the next question,


Are you sick of your work in progress?


This doesn’t imply that your work isn’t right or not proceeding the right way. It can just mean that the routine  has got overwhelming. You’ve been ‘living’ inside the heads of the ‘same’ characters day in and out. Thinking in their skin. This can get tiring. It does for me because I write emotional stuff and and to write with feeling can be exhausting. You need to replenish the store. Or sometimes the characters can for whatever reason not just talk to you. (you’ll either get this or think I’m a lost cause.) Staring at the blank page is just not helping. You can do any of these in such a situation :


Take a walk.


I read somewhere it was someone’s top Writer’s Block Curing Tip and it is mine as well. A walk, preferably somewhere you can admire the serenity of nature, will do wonders. Must be why Keats wrote ‘Ode to Autumn.‘ ‘Ode to a Nightangle‘, Robert Frost wrote ‘Birches‘, Wordsworth wrote ‘Daffodils‘. Nature has the magic spray a whiff of which can cure writer’s block and a daily dose serves as a tonic which builds your resistance like Vitamin C building resistance against colds :)


Mull in isolation.


Writing begs solitude. Mental if not physical as well. This isn’t always possible. But even if you’re shut up in a room or just not talking to anyone else, it can serve. At a crutch, you can pretend to be reading. If you have music blaring in your ears, it can serve. For me, waiting for something to cook, when family thinks I’m busy in kitchen does the trick ;) Activities which keep your hands busy while not requiring active mental engagement can serve. Washing dishes, cooking, maybe driving for some…you can devise your own. You can feel and think your characters through in those minutes and sometimes get startling ideas. Of course keep your device or pen handy for these times as memory can be very short term. A blink and it is gone!


Read over what you have written


This can provide insights you have missed. But you must read the right way. The ‘right’ way for me means taking apart every dialogue and thought of the character or characters and see if it really fits them. Have I missed some hidden motivation because I was in too much hurry to pour my thoughts on the keyboard? Or too taken up by the ‘beautiful’ (to me atm anyway) metaphors my brain had come up with? Language and expression has a way of cloaking your character’s real thoughts and motivational twists, I’m still learning this, though it’s happening less frequently than when I began seriously to write. A chance phrase would crop up and I would ignore what my character really would say in a scene just so I could use that phrase which at that time sounded witty. Writing is trickier than driving an obstacle course, I tell you.


Face it, you could just be acting lazy


Yes. Writers are also human beings so why can’t we have our weak moments? But too few of these and you get into the habit of shelving your work. It just wouldn’t call out to you that alluringly if you start to feel it’s a drag. So you have to dredge up enthusiasm when it isn’t there and suddenly after you type half a page, you are IN the story and it’s there. It’s happening. I read in a Reader’s Digest article that the motor system of the brain can influence our emotional state. For instance, smile, even when it’s a plastic smile and sometime later it can become a real one. Start writing, move those muscles, act like you love it and viola! a minute later, you are! Okay, okay sometimes it takes half an hour. BUT YOU GET SOMETHING DONE. Yes, writing is supposed to be something we love to do, but mothers will remember how sometimes kids can make you feel so unloving, yet you mother them. Same is the way with writing. You have to DO it even when you don’t love it. Kick that writer’s block by banging your head against it.


Slack off but only in very small doses. Make up in a big way. Write with love or by gritting your teeth but just write.

Which reminds me, I still have to type the scene that came to me yesterday when I was staring out of the window :p


So did you get anything out of this post? What are your secret tips on beating writer’s block. Do share!




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Published on October 17, 2013 00:16

October 12, 2013

Five tips for Nanowrimo success

It’s that time of the year again. Nanowrimo begins! Soo many of us are gearing up to take part. Are you?


I’m going to share here five tips to meet the furious demand of churning out words and win the coveted badge.


Before you ask, I haven’t won Nanowrimo. Not once. Well, I participated just that occasion. But I have finished 30000 in less than 15 days.  *takes a bow* Twice I’ve also managed  >40k in a month. Of course there are people out there writing more and even more speedily. What can you do to raise your word count, even when you have work and home demands which can be shelved for a short time but not totally ignored? Here are my tips for speed writing your manuscript.


Plan


For some people planning makes them feel more organised while some feel it crushes their creative freedom. However, planning at least the roughest idea of what your book is about, where do you want it to go, etc. will give you a framework of your story. You do plan what genre to write, don’t you? You also plan the location of your story, the characters’ jobs etc. At least during the initial stages of your woriting. So also plan the main dips and curves ahead. Even die hard pansters who ‘wing it’ will find it better going if they have some idea of the main pivotal points and definitely more than an idea of the characters. Their goals. Motivation. Conflict. Otherwise you might find your inkwell and your imagination well drying up before halfway through the month. Might. The advantage of planning is that you still have something to sink your teeth into in those rushed times when your muse gets sluggish. Get your characters charted out. As I mentioned in my short story tips post, one important incident at least from each of their stages of life will help you know the character better.


Choose the story you’re most excited about


What is the thing you have to talk about? The tale it’s ultra important to tell? You can only write when the subject moves you. When you’re bursting to have a go at it. Get thinking. Experience. Find what echoes with you and gets you…no, zings you right into the story world.

If possible write 20-25 pages beforehand. That gives you an idea where you should start the story. I don’t think it’s cheating :) Write them then bury them in some other folder. Start afresh on first November.


Ignore the internal editor


This is self explanatory. It’s very, very easy to get caught in the fatal embrace of internal editor. So it’s crucial that you don’t start with the revision process while you’re writing. This happened to me when I first joined Nano. I went back and read what I wrote and tweaked and tweaked some more…and then I didn’t like this…didn’t like that…it went on and that story is still only 15 pages done :( So ignore the temptation to make it ‘just’ a little better. December is waiting to get all that done.


Don’t expect all days to be fruitful


Certain days are bound to be better. I’d write 4k one day then sink to 350 the next. Don’t fret about it. Go catch a movie or read a book. Some days are unproductive; you just can’t help it. But indulging ‘off days’ might be just a case of allowing your imagination the lubricant oil of rest. Once the mind settles, ideas start to filter back. Look out for my upcoming post on writers’ block on how to nurse your creativity back to health. :)


Don’t mull on it all the day


You’ll get bored if you keeping things of nothing but your WIP all your waking and sleeping hours. Ultimately, you might start to hate it. It begins to seem like work, instead of fun which it started out being. The moment you get up from in front of the keyboard, try not to go back over what you’ve written. If something brilliant comes to mind, make a note. But don’t go over and over a problem again. If you’ve run into a figurative brick wall, go out and do things in between. Fill your muse with inspiration. Most of us rehash, because when you get a load of writing done, it seems like the most exciting thing in the world but take it from one who did it too many times. Thinking too much about it, spoils your story. Yes, it is the antithesis of my previous planning advice but still it has to be said. Plan what your next scene is going to be within an hour or two of your next writing session. Not before.


Of course all advice in writing varies from individual to individual in its usefulness but these are the general tips to keep you on track. A bonus piece of advice. Don’t limit your writing to your official writing time. Carry your current chapter on your phone, notebook, paper napkin ;) …anything which works for you! In those moments when you have to wait for food to cook, travel somewhere, in the waiting rooms, during lunch break at office…seize the opportunity and scribble. That’s a covert and effective way of building word count. 200 words short sessions pile up into big ones and you get that feeling of achievement which is a spur to do more and more!


Good luck to all Nanowrimo participants all over the world. Go make your manuscript happen.


Did you find these tips worth pursuing? What are your own speed writing secrets? Have you ever won Nano? What most helped you make it? Do share your views.


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Published on October 12, 2013 23:47

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