Comments on: Time Crunch http://writerunboxed.com/2009/12/16/time-crunch/ about the craft and business of fiction Thu, 24 May 2012 16:15:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Inkylas http://writerunboxed.com/2009/12/16/time-crunch/#comment-130067 Inkylas Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:16:35 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/?p=2190#comment-130067 A journal has been my lifesaver. I see writing like choreography, if you see the sequence you like you have to capture it. I put off writing for so long because of all the excuses that have been mentioned. I refuse to anymore! I will find the time, make the sacrifices. The 9-5 grind will no longer steal the dreams. I find freedom in knowing that there are people that share this struggle and are fighting to get the words down. A journal has been my lifesaver. I see writing like choreography, if you see the sequence you like you have to capture it. I put off writing for so long because of all the excuses that have been mentioned. I refuse to anymore! I will find the time, make the sacrifices. The 9-5 grind will no longer steal the dreams. I find freedom in knowing that there are people that share this struggle and are fighting to get the words down.

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]]> By: Chip http://writerunboxed.com/2009/12/16/time-crunch/#comment-129556 Chip Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:33:55 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/?p=2190#comment-129556 Hey. I came across your journal while looking through the interwebs for NaNoWriMo entrants (I was a winner back in '04 before employment life could distract me-- but oh, the rush!). If you think you might want to share your work, we're running a contest over at BookSwim.com that will let you have your novel read and judged by our readers. The top novel in each genre category (and there will be five: romance, historical fiction, mystery/thriller, speculative fiction, and mainstream / contemporary) will be printed and made available to thousands of subscribers in BookSwim's catalog! Here are the details: http://www.bookswim.com/blog/calling-all-writers-bookswim%E2%80%99s-2009-nanowrimo-competition/2009/11/05/ Maybe this is something you (or your readers) would be interested in? Thanks muchly for your time-- and good luck with those words! (Are you keeping an eye on your supply of caffeine pills?) Chip from BookSwim Hey. I came across your journal while looking through the interwebs for NaNoWriMo entrants (I was a winner back in ’04 before employment life could distract me– but oh, the rush!). If you think you might want to share your work, we’re running a contest over at BookSwim.com that will let you have your novel read and judged by our readers. The top novel in each genre category (and there will be five: romance, historical fiction, mystery/thriller, speculative fiction, and mainstream / contemporary) will be printed and made available to thousands of subscribers in BookSwim’s catalog!

Here are the details:

http://www.bookswim.com/blog/calling-all-writers-bookswim%E2%80%99s-2009-nanowrimo-competition/2009/11/05/

Maybe this is something you (or your readers) would be interested in?

Thanks muchly for your time– and good luck with those words! (Are you keeping an eye on your supply of caffeine pills?)

Chip from BookSwim

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]]> By: RhondaL http://writerunboxed.com/2009/12/16/time-crunch/#comment-129529 RhondaL Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:15:31 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/?p=2190#comment-129529 Another advantage to bringing your work or research to medical waiting rooms is that you won't be touching the magazines that everyone else has handled. Especially sick people. Because if you catch the latest bug going around, then your productivity will suffer, too. .-= RhondaL´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thehorseyset/OmEt/~3/FYTgN3cbwLY/" rel="nofollow">Meet Quincy the Horse</a> =-. Another advantage to bringing your work or research to medical waiting rooms is that you won’t be touching the magazines that everyone else has handled. Especially sick people.

Because if you catch the latest bug going around, then your productivity will suffer, too.
.-= RhondaL´s last blog ..Meet Quincy the Horse =-.

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]]> By: Anna Elliott http://writerunboxed.com/2009/12/16/time-crunch/#comment-129514 Anna Elliott Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:55:31 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/?p=2190#comment-129514 Those are great tips! I like to set a strict word-count goal for myself--one that is challenging but do-able. Then until I reach that word count goal, basically every scrap of free time I can carve out of my day goes towards writing. It gets done in a series of short bursts that way, but it does get done. Those are great tips! I like to set a strict word-count goal for myself–one that is challenging but do-able. Then until I reach that word count goal, basically every scrap of free time I can carve out of my day goes towards writing. It gets done in a series of short bursts that way, but it does get done.

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]]> By: Lost Wanderer http://writerunboxed.com/2009/12/16/time-crunch/#comment-129509 Lost Wanderer Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:30:45 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/?p=2190#comment-129509 This is exactly the issue I have been thinking about for the last two weeks. With full time job, christmas and everything else, it's been a real struggle getting to my NaNo edit, so I am working on making a plan where I could create a feasible time table. but meanwhile, I do keep the story in my head all day, and make little notes here and there if I can't actually work on it. Though for the most days, I do try to work on it at least for a short amount of time. .-= Lost Wanderer´s last blog ..<a href="http://lostwanderer5.blogspot.com/2009/12/unfinished-pieces-for-another-time.html" rel="nofollow">Unfinished Pieces for Another Time</a> =-. This is exactly the issue I have been thinking about for the last two weeks. With full time job, christmas and everything else, it’s been a real struggle getting to my NaNo edit, so I am working on making a plan where I could create a feasible time table.

but meanwhile, I do keep the story in my head all day, and make little notes here and there if I can’t actually work on it. Though for the most days, I do try to work on it at least for a short amount of time.
.-= Lost Wanderer´s last blog ..Unfinished Pieces for Another Time =-.

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]]> By: Lydia Sharp http://writerunboxed.com/2009/12/16/time-crunch/#comment-129500 Lydia Sharp Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:58:57 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/?p=2190#comment-129500 Excellent tips! .-= Lydia Sharp´s last blog ..<a href="http://lydiasharp.blogspot.com/2009/12/writing-sex-scenes-without-being.html" rel="nofollow">Writing Sex Scenes Without Being Pornographic</a> =-. Excellent tips!
.-= Lydia Sharp´s last blog ..Writing Sex Scenes Without Being Pornographic =-.

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]]> By: Kristan http://writerunboxed.com/2009/12/16/time-crunch/#comment-129496 Kristan Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:54:04 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/?p=2190#comment-129496 For #1 - people with light/small laptops (or netbooks) might be able to schlep that around. Although hard copies do sometimes give you a fresh perspective, vs. the screen. For #3 - I've been really resistant to the whole voice recorder thing - my parents kept trying to give them to me as gifts thinking it would be good for my writing, but I felt so self conscious using them. I'm a writer, not a talker! BUT then yesterday I was driving home and I started writing out a scene in my head, and I knew I would lose it if I didn't record it! Well, I won't go into how I manage to record it -- b/c it would be silly and dangerous to open up my laptop while driving on the freeway just so I could use iMovie to record my sentences, and surely I would NEVER do that... -- BUT <b>I will suggest that everyone check their cell phones to see if there is a voice memo feature!</b> Mine has one, and I plan to make much more use of it now that I know. (Note: I did not have my cell phone in the car with me yesterday, so my laptop really would have been the only way to record my thoughts. Hypothetically speaking of course!) #4 - SO, so important. .-= Kristan´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kristanhoffman/~3/eRiLvv0fpFc/" rel="nofollow">All shapes & sizes</a> =-. For #1 – people with light/small laptops (or netbooks) might be able to schlep that around. Although hard copies do sometimes give you a fresh perspective, vs. the screen.

For #3 – I’ve been really resistant to the whole voice recorder thing – my parents kept trying to give them to me as gifts thinking it would be good for my writing, but I felt so self conscious using them. I’m a writer, not a talker! BUT then yesterday I was driving home and I started writing out a scene in my head, and I knew I would lose it if I didn’t record it! Well, I won’t go into how I manage to record it — b/c it would be silly and dangerous to open up my laptop while driving on the freeway just so I could use iMovie to record my sentences, and surely I would NEVER do that… — BUT I will suggest that everyone check their cell phones to see if there is a voice memo feature! Mine has one, and I plan to make much more use of it now that I know. (Note: I did not have my cell phone in the car with me yesterday, so my laptop really would have been the only way to record my thoughts. Hypothetically speaking of course!)

#4 – SO, so important.
.-= Kristan´s last blog ..All shapes & sizes =-.

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