Monday
Aug082011
Stop When You Are Going Good
The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never get stuck.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
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Monday, August 8, 2011 at 12:01AM
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 12:01AM
Reader Comments (5)
This is great advice. In very few words, Hemingway has provided a permanent cure for Writer's block, especially for an ongoing work.
Hemmingway also said "I drink in order to make other people more interesting." I never stop when I'm in the zone." can do two days work in a hour......but then. I'm not Hemmwy either
Yep! I've found this to be more than a little true. In fact, for my latest novel I've been setting a maximum daily word count of 2k words at which point I force myself to stop and go read a book (also part of the writing process). It's been working surprisingly well.
Stephen J. Cannell, said, "If you just sit around and wait for that mood to hit you when your setter is curled up in front of the fireplace and there's a little rain outside and the thunder is rumbling and you've got the Irish coffee there... You know what? You'll never write anything. You've got to get up every day and pound it out."
This statement rings so true. Have been finding it tough to get back to my main story because I wrote myself out of ideas. I will remember this. Stop while you still know what's coming. Genius.