The Writing Warrior

Are you a morning writer?

Do you read before writing?

Do you just write when you feel like it?

Yey, I’m glad it helped! I’m going to try and post more types of things like that to encourage some productivity. Especially because I need some of that myself!

Whew it’s been a long time, but I’m back! It’s Nanowrimo season and me and my bestie are challenging each other to finish it this year.

Not gonna lie, I’ve had a rough time with my story lately. Mainly just having enough motivation and feeling like I don’t know my characters enough to write. Not to mention I write daily for my job. So I’m coming back to Tumblr to help me gain some productivity inspiration and help me fall back in love with my story again.

So I’ve switched up how I’m writing my first draft and let me tell you I’m so much more effective at writing now! Here are the two techniques that I’m using:

1. Write a sentence (or two) of what will happen in each scene.

This helps me so much because I have such a bad habit of wanting to go back and edit myself or not being able to write a future scene because I don’t know what happened in a previous scene yet.

Mapping out my scenes helps me get an overview of the whole book. It’s not too general but it’s not too detailed. I get everything that I need to be able to skip around to my heart’s content.

2. Bullet Pointing/Writing Beats

When I don’t feel like fully writing a full scene with details, I’ll bullet point actions and dialogue. Then later, when I feel like writing that scene, I’ll go back and write it out.

This helps me get through scenes fast without losing interest. In fact after I’ve bullet pointed I’m actually more excited to write it, because half of the work is already done!

These writing techniques won’t work for everyone. I can’t tell you how many different writing tricks that I’ve tried before I felt effective with these two. Find what works for you.

But for real, my creative burn out was so bad once I started my job. But thanks to our good ol pal Rona, I got laid off.

But something magical happened! My creative juices are back! So now I’m going to continue writing. I already have almost 7k on my first draft and am aiming for 75k by the end of July!