The Secret Trick Busy People Use to Write Consistently Without Extra Time
Carrying some form of notepad (or even using the notes app on your phone) can be a helpful way to grab ideas as they come. In the pad, we don’t need to journal out complete thoughts. We just need to capture sentences or notions or plot points.
Often, I find I don’t even need to look back at my notes later. The act of writing them down solidifies them in my mind.
3. Look for Stand-Ins
One of the most difficult things for me to get right in a novel is my character’s physical description. If I’m left to my own devices, all my characters come out as weird blobs that have no exact form.
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