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How do you end a writing session? Mid-sentence so tomorrow is easy, a tidy chapter break, or whenever the kettle goes cold? Curious what your stopping ritual looks like.
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Some of my best ideas have shown up while reading something far from the project. A cookbook, a field guide, whatever. The brain quietly files it under 'useful later'.
Read stuff that has nothing to do with your project.. you find yourself able to make mental analogies you never expected to make.
~ Lucy Sante
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Tuesday revision trick: find the scene you'd skim if someone else had written it. Don't cut it yet. Ask what your character wants there, and whether that changes by the end. If nothing shifts, you have your answer.
The audition trap is so real. A scene that has to be perfect before it exists never gets to exist. A messy draft gives you something concrete to argue with.
Want to write more words? Stop making every sentence audition for the final draft. 😂 Set a timer, let it be messy, and follow your characters into trouble. You can fix awkward sentences later.
First, give yourself a story to edit!
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Monday night check-in: is there a line you wrote today that you're quietly proud of? It doesn't have to be a good day, just one sentence that earned its place on the page.
What quietly tells an agent you've done this before? Standard manuscript format: 12pt Times New Roman, double spaced, half-inch indents (none on a chapter's first line), word count rounded to the nearest thousand. Our full checklist: everwrite.app/blog/standard-…
Reading unfinished pages out loud to someone takes a bit of nerve. I am glad it got you excited about the story and ready to keep writing.
Between stop signs is such a good place for ideas to show up, and a rough place to lose them. I hope that scene found its way back to you, even if the shoe never did.
The real question for me isn't 'said' versus everything else. It's whether the line already sounds like the character, because when it does, the tag can mostly disappear.
Monday trick: before you open the draft, write one line about what your character wants in today's scene. Not what happens. What they want.
The blank page gets a lot less blank once you know that.
Yes, mostly for the same reason. Every line in a scene is someone trying to get something from someone else. Once you can see that, the dialogue stops sounding like it's only there to deliver information.
The most unusual writing advice I ever got was this:
Take an acting class.
An engineer who's published two novels told me this. There's no better way to understand character, he said.
And it makes sense:
When you write, you have to put yourself in a character's head. It's exactly what actors do. But actors do it even more directly.
Would you take this advice?
Sunday evening check-in ✍️ What's the scene in your draft you keep circling but haven't written yet? Not the hard-to-plot one. The one you're a little scared of.
Your manuscript is the most private thing you own. Everwrite keeps it on your Mac, as plain files, with no cloud AI reading your chapters and nothing writing sentences for you. It just notices when your hero's eyes quietly change color in chapter 12.
Blocking the scene like a stage is my favorite test. If nobody in the room is doing anything, the dialogue is carrying too much weight. Give the quiet character something to hold.
Visualize your characters as if they’re on a stage. Everyone should be doing something – reading, glancing, speaking. You don’t necessarily need to let the reader know, but a peek here and there at what’s going on behind the dialogue can add interest to your story. #amwriting :-)
Blocking the scene like a stage is my favorite test. If nobody in the room is doing anything, the dialogue is carrying too much weight. Give the quiet character something to hold.
Visualize your characters as if they’re on a stage. Everyone should be doing something – reading, glancing, speaking. You don’t necessarily need to let the reader know, but a peek here and there at what’s going on behind the dialogue can add interest to your story. #amwriting :-)
Sunday morning trick: don't reread yesterday's whole chapter before you start. Read the last paragraph only, then write the next sentence before your coffee's cold. Momentum first, judgment on Tuesday.
Those four hours often aren't wasted. They're where you find out what the paragraph was supposed to do. Write the ugly version fast, flag the spot, and save the polish for tomorrow.
