How Authors Work

[rec]

In today's (11/6) Wall Street Journal, there is a fine piece about how 11 authors find plots and develop their stories.

 

The following shortcut may work for nonsubscribers of the WSJ: Click here

[Libby Drew]

Great article! Thanks for sharing it. It just goes to show you that everyone has their unique routines.

[Dolores Esteban]

That was a very interesting article!

[Mark Arbour]

Yes it was.

[David McLeod]

Good article; thanks for the link. Maybe we don't need the Muse, after all.

 

Nah.

[Tipdin]

How people work and what inspires them is always interesting to me.

 

Often times, I claim that my computer wrote the story, I simply sat down and started pressing keys on the keyboard with virtually no idea what was going to happen.

 

I once wrote 300 pages without any forethought at all. Granted, the whole thing was a mess and needed work, but I ended up writing 300 pages of a love story when I in fact sat down to write an email to my boss - about a website I was supposed to be building. (For medical insurance laws!)

 

When it's time, it's time!

[JTRandall]

Its funny, I was just thinking earlier tonight about how I used to write in notebooks and how much easier it was for me to write like that. I was irritated at myself for not being able to simply sit down and type it onto a computer, but after reading that article I dont feel so bad.

 

It totally gave me a boost knowing that just because I have a hard time typing on a computer, doesn't mean that my writing skills have fled.

 

THANKS!

[Nephylim]

Its funny, I was just thinking earlier tonight about how I used to write in notebooks and how much easier it was for me to write like that. I was irritated at myself for not being able to simply sit down and type it onto a computer, but after reading that article I dont feel so bad.

 

It totally gave me a boost knowing that just because I have a hard time typing on a computer, doesn't mean that my writing skills have fled.

 

THANKS!

 

 

It's whatever works for you hun

[W_L]

I write when I am excited and motivated in stretches.

 

It makes a really odd writing schedule, I can write 100,000 words in a day or 100 words in a month.

[Rilbur]

Sounds like me, lol!

[W_L]

Did I happen to say that my next chapter is about the length of a book?

 

Lucky I break them out into days.