In February, I posted about a deal my wife and I made, since we both had books to finish but weren’t getting them done. We agreed to sit down every morning, before we did anything else, and write our books forward for an hour – one hour, no more, no less – without fail.
I promised a report and here it is: the process works as advertised.
My priority going in was to bring substance and clarity to the murky areas of a rather complicated story. My imagination would have to fly blind into large stretches of story that had so far resisted logic and remained stubbornly undeveloped. The obvious tool for the job was freewriting, and I was prepared to do as much of it as I had to.
I’ve included a snatch of video for emphasis as well as proof of the basic truth: write for one hour every day, without fail, and you’ll move your novel forward, steadily and confidently, to completion.
As the video shows, I’ve generated a ton of notes -- enough for now. What next? From my vantagepoint, that’s a no brainer. Our little morning constitutional has my novel rolling forward again, and now that I’m ready to write draft, why stop? The 7:30 writing hour will continue.
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