Writing@UMA_Noel Tague
From Richard Burns
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Every once in a while, I am inspired when I start writing and it feels really great. I'm focused. Sentences flow out. And I know exactly what I want to say. I feel like I'm being swept away on a wave. But in my day-to-day life, I don't have time to wait for inspiration to him. I don't have time to wait for that quiet moment to come along and for my mind to get its act together and be brilliant. I have deadly. I have writing deadlines, I have work deadlines. I have e-mails probably from you that I need to answer. And so if I have a little bit of time to write, I just need to get going. So what do I do if I'm not in spite will through the years, I've kind of figured out a few tricks to help me write. Even when I'm not feeling very inspired. Now, I'm talking about stuff that happens in the writing process. After I've done all my reading, after I've gotten my ideas together. I have my topic inlined and I maybe also taken some notes. So I have a bunch of stuff and I'm sitting down to write and I know exactly what I want to write about. But again, like how do I get started if I'm just not feeling it? The first thing I do is I allow myself to do garbage writing. That's the name I gave it. Its garbage. I know it's going to be garbage. I'm just getting the words out on the page. And that's what matters. I try to use some punctuation, but my sentences are not looking good. And I try to use some paragraphs, but mostly what I'm interested in is just getting those words out on the page. If I call a garbage writing, it doesn't really matter. I know it's bad and that's the point. Fine. I'm getting those words out and I'm just starting to form ideas. And then sometimes after a couple of paragraphs in as I'm just typing that stuff out, I do start to feel like ideas are kind of coming together. I might even actually find a little bit of inspiration as I realized that there are some connections happening on the page. Then I'll go back and I'll tinker with those sentences. And now I have the words on the page so I can just start fixing them and moving them around and cleaning cleaning up my words. The other thing I do is something called ending on the down slope. So a lot of people right. Hit a wall. It's like I can't, I'm stuck, I'm lost. I can't do anymore. But the thing is, I know that the next day I'm going to have to finish up this writing project or the day after that. And I'm also probably not going to be inspired that day either. So I like to end on the downside. I like to end in a place that I know will be really easy for me to enter again later. So I'm going to end my writing project a couple sentences before I actually know I'm done. And I might leave a few notes for myself like, the next time you come back here, say something about this, or don't forget to mention this point about that. So the next day when I'm also not very inspired, I'll sit down. I'll be like, I don't really feel like this, but then I'll open it up and I might be thinking, Great, I'm going to start writing again. What am I going to do? And then I see those notes to myself and I've just got this really easy entry right down, back into the essay, back into the writing project, back into whatever report I'm working on. And I can just start getting right back into those thoughts until eventually the sentences carry me away again. And then after a few sessions at the end. So I don't always need inspiration to write. I don't always need to be writing a masterpiece, but I can still get writing done by just trusting him. That's that I have learned how to develop for myself.
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