https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/ Writing Excuses Transcripts - Dreamwidth Studios Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:51:00 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios wetranscripts community https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/40180.html Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:51:00 GMT https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/40180.html Posted by: <span lj:user='mbarker.livejournal.com' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?userid=92151&amp;t=I'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png' alt='[identity profile] ' width='16' height='16' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://mbarker.livejournal.com/' rel='nofollow'><b>mbarker.livejournal.com</b></a></span><br /><br />Writing Excuses 5.12: Time Travel!<br /><br />From <a href="http://www.writingexcuses.com/2010/12/12/writing-excuses-5-12-time-travel/">http://www.writingexcuses.com/2010/12/12/writing-excuses-5-12-time-travel/</a><br /><br />Key Points: Treat your writing professionally. Learn your own process. Don't just wish, start! Shut up and start. Be wary of collaboration. Be true to yourself, write the books you care about. Try out different ways of writing (outlining, discovery writing, etc.) early. Try new things! Pay attention to what you love, and don't worry. You can make a living writing books.<br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/40180.html#cutid1">Across the great time barrier...</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br />[Brandon] All right. Your writing prompt is to go forward in time and get next week's writing prompt and write a story based on it.<br />[Dan] Nice.<br />[Brandon] This has been Writing Excuses. You're out of excuses, now go write.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=wetranscripts&ditemid=40180" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/40180.html outline process discovery collaboration work professional flickering public ext_88293 0