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Isabel Cañas
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NaNo Day 14
19,361 words and hanging in there. I wrote 5,500 words yesterday, 1,900 today. I'm nearing the end of the manuscript that i'm working on. A manuscript that I've been working on in some form or another since, like, I first had a nightmare that inspired it in August 2020. Really hoping to finish it tomorrow. I'm not looking forward to it, because a main character dies and writing that is stressful. I literally have such a tense jaw right now from the last two days of drafting leading up to the third act.
AH.
Anyway.
Thinking of being here more often. Everywhere else makes me tired.
That's all.
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cool hack: flood your elected representatives' offices with faxes demanding for a ceasefire
fight fire with fire
fight boomers with FAXES
faxzero.com
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“Writing is really a way of thinking – not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.”
— Toni Morrison
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Challenge: Write for 10 Minutes Every Day for a Week
It’s a common misconception that a daily writing habit takes a huge amount of time and effort to maintain. It doesn’t.
With the right tools and systems in place, it can be as leisurely as a walk in a park. You don’t have to lose sleep over it. You don’t have to chain-smoke cigarettes. You don’t have to quit your job and move into the woods to do it.
I’m not sure what is causing this sentiment — perhaps memories from when you joined NaNoWriMo and tried writing thousands of words daily (or a similar push to hit a crazy deadline). While it can work for some, most writers don’t write thousands of words every day like that.
This week, I want to challenge you to write for just ten minutes every day. There’s no daily word count goal. If you sit there for ten minutes and nothing comes out, that’s a success too.
From Dreamer to Writer
Hang on a second. How can you get anything done with just ten minutes per day? I’m glad that you asked!
If you stick to it, you’ll write for just over an hour per week, five hours per month and 60 hours per year. According to my writing stats, I average about 1,500 words per hour. That’s 90,000 words per year. I’m not a particularly fast writer, but even if you did half of that, you’re still in the 50,000 words/year range.
That’s a lot of words, considering you’re only writing for 10 minutes a day. But there’s more.
Occasionally, you’ll be in the mood for writing. Your ten minutes fly past, and you’re nowhere near done. Maybe you write for 30 minutes, perhaps an hour, working on an exciting chapter of your story.
The words add up faster than you think.
The Challenge
Starting today, write for at least ten minutes per day for a week. You may work on your current WIP, write a short story, blog post or journal.
There’s no word goal. As long as you sit down to write, it’s a success!
I set up a challenge in Writing Analytics if you’d like to join:
https://app.writinganalytics.co/challenge/647f2785e7b6ddfbda265635
One great thing about WA is that you can set and track time goals for your writing sessions. That makes it super easy to build a writing habit like that:
Happy writing!
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Precious man (not in black!) sighted ❤ (x,x)
Neil Gaiman: Hi, I'm Neil Gaiman. I'm wearing the first red T-shirt I've worn since 1987. Because I'm a member of the WGA. I'm on strike. I care so much for the things that I've written but I'm out here right now not working and here until we get a good contract because I care about the future of the WGA, the future of young writers. I want a world in which no AI writes scripts or attempts to. I want a world in which young writers get to learn how to make television. And I want a world in which we are fairly compensated for the things that we put up on streaming.
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How You Can Help
It's the question I'm getting most often. This was just up on Twitter:
Go to
Hit Donate, and when it asks where you want to donate to, Film and Television.
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“If this hurts my shows I’m gonna riot” “they better not cancel my favorite show” “this is so selfish I NEED this show” “what about my mental health now that they—“
So you agree. Show-writers are important to you and to the industry and should be compensated accordingly for their important work.
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AWOL because I had a baby and she’s perfect
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ahhhh i went on a microfiction bender like two weeks ago and just heard over the weekend that one of my pieces will be appearing in a super cute journal in september aw yis
aside from that, i have exactly 0 pieces lined up for publication in 2023, so this feels great
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“An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.”
— Charles Dickens
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God I'm a sucker for characters who are so utterly loyal to someone that they're completely unhinged. Characters who have no moral compass except their overwhelming devotion to whoever they've chosen to listen to. That's the good shit
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humans are haunted houses. we are both the rooms and the ghosts in the corners.
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i'm sitting on SO MANY PUBLISHING SECRETS right now, you don't even know how it's killing me not saying anything
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I absolutely adored “my sister is a scorpion” and “no other life” and cannot wait for my library to give me the hacienda so i can make it my entire personality. As an aspiring author/academic myself, I really admire your ability to balance the PhD and the literary brilliance :)))
this made my day--thank you anon!! best of luck balancing academia with writing! i'm on here in fits and spurts but you can always drop into my ask box or even dms if you wanna chat about the particular struggles that the ivory tower+writing life tightrope walk presents
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Do you see publishers using AI instead of relying on authors?
no.
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