Writing Process

[trouble]

I've been struggling a lot with the actual process of getting words-on-the-page for the past month or so. (It's been terrible.)

Today I had a good chat about it with my thesis adviser, where she talked about her writing process when she was writing full-time.

She described spending her morning review, re-reading, and revising her previous work, some time going over her notes and plans to make sure she had all the evidence she needed for her arguments at her fingertips, and then spending basically the last two or so hours of the day doing the actual typing.

I think this could be helpful to me, but I'm curious about other people's getting words on the page methods.

Comments

[zulu]

Having everything to hand is crucial to me. I've found that if I have a really detailed outline, including all the citations/quotes I'll potentially use in a passage, then I'm much more likely to start working. It also helps me if I make very defined work-periods, goals, and rest-periods. For instance, in each hour, I can write 500 words and have a ten-minute break for walking around and stretching. It definitely helps.

Good luck getting stuff on paper!