- Get your expectations firmly in check.
- Find your own personal “give-a-fuck” factor.
- Draw the map for the journey ahead.
- Become wild west scrivening inkslinger, “Quick-Note McGoat.”
- Know thy characters.
- Build an (incomplete) world.
- Test drive those imaginary motherfuckers.
- Dig up all the glittery conflict diamonds.
- Identify the major rules.
- Find your way into the tale.
- Also: Identify the Great Egress.
- Learn all the appropriate things.
- Suss out the fiddly bits.
- The 13-Second Closing-Window-Of-Opportunity Pitch
- Hell, write the whole goddamn query.
- Know your word processor intimately.
- Establish a daily schedule.
- Build a timetable.
- Ensure that life accommodates the book.
- Have a publication path in mind.
- Clean your shitty desk, you filthmonger.
- The Backup Plan
- Set it and forget it.
- Commit, motherfucker.
- Stop doing all this other stuff and write already.
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