Really sound advice! As for myself, I like to keep a daily schedule. I know I might sound like a broken record, and I’m aware life can always complicate that some days. But generally speaking, I think the power of schedule helps keep ‘background noise’ (so to speak) of real life scaries minimized, at least. At the the most, I could write two pages in an hour and not think one thing about the real world. This past week has resulted in the most writing I’ve ever done, and I strongly believe that’s because I’ve been working to my strengths.
However, I also think background noise can hurt you more depending on where you are in the writing process. Heavy writer’s block can make it easy for the noise to hurt more. For me, the worst was as I was still developing the thick lore of my world while trying to power through the second chapter. The first two chapters are lengthy and have lots of necessary exposition and character introductions. But trying to piece everything together to fit a coherent narrative—on top of juggling real life worries, then the election—it took a month to finally power through that to now. But it has been incredibly worth it. To fight through to now.
Really sound advice! As for myself, I like to keep a daily schedule. I know I might sound like a broken record, and I’m aware life can always complicate that some days. But generally speaking, I think the power of schedule helps keep ‘background noise’ (so to speak) of real life scaries minimized, at least. At the the most, I could write two pages in an hour and not think one thing about the real world. This past week has resulted in the most writing I’ve ever done, and I strongly believe that’s because I’ve been working to my strengths.
However, I also think background noise can hurt you more depending on where you are in the writing process. Heavy writer’s block can make it easy for the noise to hurt more. For me, the worst was as I was still developing the thick lore of my world while trying to power through the second chapter. The first two chapters are lengthy and have lots of necessary exposition and character introductions. But trying to piece everything together to fit a coherent narrative—on top of juggling real life worries, then the election—it took a month to finally power through that to now. But it has been incredibly worth it. To fight through to now.