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Holiday Archives: How to Get Writing Done When You’re Blocked

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Less than a week till Christmas. Are you ready?

Just an FYI: There are going to be some changes at BeKindRewrite in 2014! For these changes, I need to do some technical experimentation, so next week I’ll be taking the site down temporarily while I piddle around with it. This could be any time between the 24th and the 29th. To keep things simple, Inspiration Monday will be postponed for the week of Christmas (which gives you an extra week for the prompts from the 16th!).

I’ll give another alert about this before then. In the meantime, here’s the go-to article for whenever you’re feeling uninspired.

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23 FUN WAYS TO BE PRODUCTIVE DESPITE WRITER’S BLOCK

Image by Drew Coffman

After waiting for it all week, you’re finally settling in at your computer with a giant mug of tea. You open your novel-in-progress. You scroll to the blank space at the end. You stretch your fingers.

And nothing happens.

Here’s what you should do.

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Holiday Archives: Your Most Important Sentence

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I’m out of the ice at last! Have been free since Tuesday. Now to finish up the Christmas shopping. Thanksgiving came so late this year, it’s hard to believe Christmas is in less than two weeks.

Hey. Wanna know what the most important sentence in your book is?

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THE MOST IMPORTANT SENTENCE IN YOUR BOOK

crying boy
Photo by David Shankbone

You know the feeling. The book you’ve spent the last couple of weeks reading has become a dear friend. You must keep reading it, but the more you do, the closer you get to the end…and suddenly it’s over. It is no longer a companion, but a memory. You enter into mourning.

Sequels aside, only one thing can ease pain of the ending of a great book:

Find out what

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Holiday Archives: How to Handle Rejection

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In the South, a few centimeters of snow, sleet or freezing rain means all the schools close down. For me, it means I’m working from home today. It looks like Christmas outside my window! I hope you all stay safe, whatever the weather may bring you.

How ’bout you warm up with a little encouragement from yesteryear:

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HOW TO HANDLE DISCOURAGEMENT, REJECTION, AND BAD REVIEWS

Image by Binu Kumar
Image by Binu Kumar

You write something brilliant at three in the morning, but by the next afternoon you want to burn it. You query a dozen agents and no one asks for pages. Your agent has submitted to 50 publishers and no one is interested. Your novel is getting awful reviews left and right.

At every stage of your writing career, no matter how successful you are, you are going to get discouraged.

Read the rest

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Holiday Archives: How to Get Close to Your Characters

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I hope you who celebrate Thanksgiving had a good one! For me, Turkey Day marks the beginning of the holiday season, which means I’m on soft hiatus till the new year. InMon will continue weekly as usual, but on Fridays, you’ll see links to some archived posts from years past. Hopefully they are fresh to you, or at least good reminders. Here’s this week’s!

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8 COOL WAYS TO GET CLOSE TO YOUR CHARACTERS

Image by Okko Pyykko.

People who aren’t writers don’t know the extent of background work that goes into writing a novel—how much plot, setting and character development we write that never appears on the published page.

This is a list of a few of those things. Read it!

Technical Difficulties: Crash

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My computer has crashed and I am still in the process of fixing it, therefore Friday’s post is hanging somewhere in the aether. Alack, alack.

With luck, everything will be up and running by Monday. If you don’t hear from me by then, know that I am still in good health and have not been abducted by pirates.

Thank you!