[4177] in Depressing_Thoughts
Re: Writing
kevles@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kevles@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Nov 8 11:42:43 1993
Try this:
Force yourself to sit down and write ... anything, drivel or not,
coherent or not ... for 20 consecutive minutes every day. Many writers
find that when they do this, the ideas start to come and actual writing
starts to happen, and they often stay sitting and working beyond their
self-impposed twenty minutes.
The key is FORCING yourself to sit down and do it. I tried this method
and, although it doesn't work every time, it works often enough to keep
me writing. And I also find that if I try this and get myself into a
writing frame of mind for 20 minutes a day, at OTHER times during the
day I'll be hit with inspiration. If I don't sit down and force myself
to write, inspiration rarely happens.
Good luck.
--Beth
