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Researching isn't writing and vice-versa.

Knitters leave a bit of yarn sticking out of the day's knitting so they know where to pick up the next day — they call it the "hint." Potters leave a rough edge on the wet clay before they wrap it in plastic for the night — it's hard to build on a smooth edge. That way, when you sit down at the keyboard the next day, your first five or ten words are already ordained, so that you get a little push before you begin your work. Especially if you're in the middle of a sentence. Stop even if you're in the middle of a sentence. Try to find one or two vivid sensory details to work into the next page, or a bon mot, so that you've already got some material when you sit down at the keyboard. The secret is to do it every day, weekends included, to keep the momentum going, and to allow your thoughts to wander to your next day's page between sessions. Twenty minutes is a short enough interval that it can be claimed from a sleep or meal-break (though this shouldn't become a habit). Writing a page every day gets me more than a novel per year — do the math — and there's always 20 minutes to be found in a day, no matter what else is going on. It's not plausible or desirable to try to get the world to go away for hours at a time, but it's entirely possible to make it all shut up for 20 minutes.

When I'm working on a story or novel, I set a modest daily goal — usually a page or two — and then I meet it every day, doing nothing else while I'm working on it. Most of the time, I'm on top of my workload and my muse. I still sometimes feel frazzled and info-whelmed, but that's rare. I think I've managed to balance things out through a few simple techniques that I've been refining for years. I'd no sooner give it up than I'd give up fiction or any other pleasurable vice. It's informed my creativity and aesthetics, it's benefited me professionally and personally, and for every moment it steals, it gives back a hundred delights.

BBEDIT TURN OFF HINTS PLUS

As a co-parenting new father who writes at least a book per year, half-a-dozen columns a month, ten or more blog posts a day, plus assorted novellas and stories and speeches, I know just how short time can be and how dangerous distraction is.īut the Internet has been very good to me. Every now and again, when I see a new website, game, or service, I sense the tug of an attention black hole: a time-sink that is just waiting to fill my every discretionary moment with distraction. This advice was wrong creatively, professionally, artistically, and personally, but I know where the writer who doled it out was coming from. The single worst piece of writing advice I ever got was to stay away from the Internet because it would only waste my time and wouldn't help my writing. After the evaluation period, you may re-enable all of BBEdit’s exclusive features at any time by purchasing a license.We know that our readers are distracted and sometimes even overwhelmed by the myriad distractions that lie one click away on the Internet, but of course writers face the same glorious problem: the delirious world of information and communication and community that lurks behind your screen, one alt-tab away from your word-processor. When it ends, you can still use BBEdit - with no nag screens or unsolicited interruptions, for free, forever. During that period, all of BBEdit’s features are available.

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