Thursday, November 16, 2006

On Writing A Book In Your Spare Moments

On Writing A Book In Your Spare Moments
by Elizabeth Anne Ensley.

          If you write 150 words per day, seven days per week, then you will have 1,050 words per week. If you write 200 words per day, five days, that's 1k per week. It does not sound like a lot, but 1000 words, per week, will leave you with a total of 52,000 words that you have written, by year's end.
          What is a hundred and fifty words per week worth to you? Is it one sentence, or one short paragraph, each time you use the toilet? Some, few words, scribbled in a small notebook while you wait for the morning bus? It's not difficult.
          The most difficult part isn't writing, but how you organize your writing time. How many words you write per session is not important. The act of writing is the major triumph. Without the writing, you would not, eventually, write your book. Even if you think you cannot think of what to say, write down what you think you would like to day, either at that time, or at a future point. The words will come: but the habit of writing will encourage you to write them.
          The writing itself is important; how much, will handle itself.


                              Regards,
                              Elizabeth Anne Ensley
                              NaNoNatter

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