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After yesterday’s post went live (Conception, writing, not finishing, finishing) and establishing how it’s harder not to write than to push through, I saw something I wanted to share.
According to an article by Shana McNally that appears in the Costco Connection (August 2010), about Rhoda Janzen, author of Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, A Memoir of Going Home:
“An “immersion” writer, who started writing each day after a rehabilitating run and wrote until “the point of exhaustion,” Janzen emerged with a manuscript after just one month and four days.”
One month + four days. Well, that works, too. The bottom line: whatever works for you.
Tip: Ask: How’s it working? to find out.
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I might be able to write enough words to technically fill a manuscript in one month, four days–but good words that people want to read? Nah.
Wow. That’s all I can think to say about that.
It’s one thing to “get it out there” but another for something to be refined and coherent. I’d hope for the latter but usually get the former in the beginning!
I could write until the point of exhaustion, I’m sure. Would it be worth reading? Doubtful.