tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496585120938599514.post583669006057412285..comments2023-05-04T03:37:04.200-07:00Comments on The Rouge Wave: Keeping it GoingJulie Grayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14690487940378619749noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496585120938599514.post-12905629381256133342007-11-08T13:06:00.000-08:002007-11-08T13:06:00.000-08:00Over the yrs I've come to the conclusion that star...Over the yrs I've come to the conclusion that starting is the hardest part-- at least for me. I try to keep the momentum up but sometimes i still drop the ball. <BR/><BR/>A few tricks:<BR/><BR/>1. I don't berate or criticize myself, call myself lazy etc. I does no good. It doesn't help me get going, it only makes me feel like crap.<BR/><BR/>2. If I don't want to work on the main project at hand, I work on another project. I'm always working on more than one thing partly for this reason.<BR/><BR/>3. If I don't want to work on any specific project, I work on coming up with new ideas/concepts. I find this fun & it keeps my mind on screenwriting. Even if i'm not churning out pages, I know I'm still contributing to the overall goal. After a while I get enthusiastic again & hit the specific project.<BR/><BR/>4. I get out what I'm working on, READ my notes & the pages I have so far. Inevitably, a new idea will come to me & i'll want to try it out-- and I'm back in it. :-)Team Brindlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11617273530412639059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8496585120938599514.post-76904727997250668092007-11-08T07:12:00.000-08:002007-11-08T07:12:00.000-08:00Your idea of leaving things unfinished is of cours...Your idea of leaving things unfinished is of course the tried-and-true one, a strategy I've used for thirty years, or at least ever since my mentor at the time told me about it. I think Hemingway once said that writing was like climbing mountains in a range of them: if you end your day at the bottom of one, then you'll spend too much time trying to gain the momentum to ascend the next one. <BR/><BR/>So what I always do is leave myself at the metaphorical top of the mountain. Especially when I'm writing a novel I sketch out the opening lines to the next chapter or section, so I get a running start the next day. I at least know where I'm going if not what the ultimate goal is for that day.<BR/><BR/>Also--both with scripts and fiction--I go back some pages and begin revising. (In a script I go back to page one every day; in a novel usually twenty pages.) That also gives me the needed momentum to move forward.JPShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02045935799908793676noreply@blogger.com