What Are Your Writing Habits?

Post by **Lightning Rod** » August 22nd, 2008, 12:59 pm

What are your writing habits?

do you write:

Every day?
All the time?
Once in a while?
When I am inspired?
When I have no other choice?

I write every day whether I want to or not
many days I don't want to, but I do it anyway

Literary rumor has it that Mickey Spillane wrote 5000 words per day
Earnest Hemingway wrote 500 words a day.

I decided to base my writing goals on the Hemingway model. 500 words per day.

The best writing advice I've ever heard was, "Keep the hand moving."

Post by **silent woman** » August 23rd, 2008, 6:46 am

"The world revolves around the hand that writes" Amos Oz

j lives in Nir Oz, I wonder if it was named after him.

Post by **Artguy** » August 23rd, 2008, 8:42 am

I write in a journal every day....call it therapy..

Post by **judih** » August 23rd, 2008, 9:59 am

i write everyday. have to keep the knuckles limber in hopes that maybe a stray thought will actually agree to slip onto a page.

stilltrucking - 'Oz' means 'strength'. 'Nir' is the ploughed part of a field ready for seeding.
So, what is the meaning of our name? Perhaps something like 'strength is a ploughed field'? or a ploughed field of strength.

in any case, Amos and the kibbutz share the idea of strength but not because we're related.

Post by **stilltrucking** » August 23rd, 2008, 10:38 am

thanks j
I googled Nir Oz
Amos changed his name, to the Hebrew word Oz. I forgot what his name was before he changed it.
And it was not he who said that about the hand that writes, it was his grandfather.

I have no writing habits
Just compuslions.

Post by **Arcadia** » August 23rd, 2008, 11:01 am

I´m not good for polls I guess, I´m between the last two options!!!!

Post by **Nazz** » August 24th, 2008, 4:40 pm

My writing habits?

I quit. Again.

Post by **Lightning Rod** » August 24th, 2008, 5:20 pm

Nazz wrote:My writing habits?

I quit. Again.

oh yeah, that's part of my discipline too
I quit daily (right after my 500 words)

Post by **constantine** » August 24th, 2008, 5:27 pm

i think writing everyday has helped me. not only in output, but in the ability to access that interior realm of what we call inspiration. it's like wearing a path out by repeated walks into the overgrowth.

Post by **Doreen Peri** » August 24th, 2008, 5:34 pm

I write when I can't breathe.

Post by **Lightning Rod** » August 24th, 2008, 5:43 pm

doreen peri wrote:I write when I can't breathe.

I thought you had an inhaler for that

keep the hand moving, dino

Post by **Doreen Peri** » August 24th, 2008, 6:40 pm

That was my best line in months.