Use every spare minute to write

Friday, November 2, 2012 at 1:53PM
Brandon in Inspiration, Kevin J. Anderson, NaNoWriMo, procrastination

Too often I’ve heard the lame excuse, “I don’t have enough time to do a serious amount of writing, so I’ll just [insert procrastinating activity] instead.”  Science fiction writer Roger Zelazny used to advise authors to “write two sentences.”  Not such an insurmountable obstacle.  You may really only have time to write two sentences; in other instances, though, those two sentences will lead to two more, and then two paragraphs; ten minutes later you’ll have a page done.  A free ten minutes is ten minutes you could be writing.  Two sentences will take you two sentences closer to finishing the manuscript.

Article originally appeared on The Unwritten Word (http://www.unwrittenword.com/).