Post by Cir on Jun 6, 2014 21:00:27 GMT -5
I like the first week of this thing a lot. Sometimes everyone who's going to write, writes that week. Sometimes it's people you never read again and wonder whether they used an alias and are secretly some big-shot writer from New York. Sometimes. people ease into it, trickling in over a few weeks like May's rain in that old roof chewed through by carpenter bees. Sometimes you can't call it. Either way there's always an excitement around the first week.
Even though I write year round, ARTW is usually a big adjustment to my schedule. The first week I generally take my time, and figure out my writing routine for the the event. It depends on things like seasonal grocery volume, how many snow days the kids had, and my current calisthenics to HBO hour-long ratio. By the time I put pen to paper (notebooks for all poetry, keyboard for all prose), I usually know what my rituals and taboos for the coming weeks will be. Over the years, I've found that in picking a routine, my comfort is paramount, I like times where I feel alert, and sometimes showing up at that time even when you don't know what you'll write is all it takes.
This year I plan on writing at night (probably the night before my day off), and after I've had a look at the sky. Regardless of the day I write it, I like to post on Fridays.
So yeah...
Do you feel writing rust?
Do you use writing routines, scheduled times, or follow rituals?
Even though I write year round, ARTW is usually a big adjustment to my schedule. The first week I generally take my time, and figure out my writing routine for the the event. It depends on things like seasonal grocery volume, how many snow days the kids had, and my current calisthenics to HBO hour-long ratio. By the time I put pen to paper (notebooks for all poetry, keyboard for all prose), I usually know what my rituals and taboos for the coming weeks will be. Over the years, I've found that in picking a routine, my comfort is paramount, I like times where I feel alert, and sometimes showing up at that time even when you don't know what you'll write is all it takes.
This year I plan on writing at night (probably the night before my day off), and after I've had a look at the sky. Regardless of the day I write it, I like to post on Fridays.
So yeah...
Do you feel writing rust?
Do you use writing routines, scheduled times, or follow rituals?
