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Writing like a martial art

Two and half months into my latest ms and I am 1,500 words shy of 20,000 words. In February 2011, I wrote 50,000 in two weeks. Perhaps I am invoking* the spirit of Andie Miller's Slow Motion. Or tackling Rachelle Gardner's No 1 of 7 Bad Habits of Successful Authors** - Impatience. My writing Bff and I have christened this draft The Tai Chi MS. *I'm pretty sure it isn't evoke - as I'm not trying to write like Andie Miller. Although she does write very well. But feel free to correct me. **Link courtesy of writing Bff
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Published on May 16, 2012 02:15
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message 1: by Judy (last edited May 29, 2012 09:05AM) (new)
May 29, 2012 09:05AM

Judy Croome That's a lot of words to write in 2 months! Hope your shoulder is holding up. Interesting that you compare writing to a martial art - I did too, in a long ago blogpost The Way of the Writing Warrior - it's a bit out of date now (was written in 2008) but the Samurai principles can still be applied)

Good luck with writing the next 20 000 words!


message 2: by Tiah (new)
May 29, 2012 10:00AM

Tiah Is it? Stephen King says 2,000 a day. I used to do a good thousand when I wasn't 'sprinting' but lately, 700 might be it.

Thanks for your blog link!


message 3: by Judy (new)
May 29, 2012 10:38AM

Judy Croome I'm in the minority, I know - but I found Margaret Atwood's book on writing (Negotiating with the Dead) MUCH better than King's On Writing (which I disliked)


message 4: by Tiah (new)
May 31, 2012 07:40AM

Tiah I've read Atwood's too, and enjoyed it. But think they all do different things.


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