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Do You Have TRUE GRIT? If Not, 7 Ways To Get It
Posted by Author Kristen Lamb in Success on December 9, 2015
In my tenure in this profession it is sad how many truly talented writers I've seen who never made it. The reason? Talent is useless without mental toughness. It takes true grit to make it in this business.
Too many writers are simply not going to make it because they don't have the sticking power. And while this is an easy observation to make, I am here to do more than point out the obvious. I'm here to give some practical ways to improve psychological toughness, get better at being disciplined, and eat goals and deadlines for breakfast (they have ZERO calories, btw).
Relax and enjoy the holidays. Refueling is vital. Bookmark this. Let it soak in and then be ready to act come January 1st. These tips work for anything you want to accomplish, btw.
Seven Tips for True Grit
One—Set Goals
No really and don't roll your eyes at me 😛 . Set them. I know you hear this all the time but it's true. Write them down and make them real. How can you map a course if you don't know were you are going?
When I was in sales we had a saying, Fail to plan. Plan to fail.
If you have a goal to eventually replace that day job with being a full-time writer? Write it down and then plan your escape. Studies have shown that we're far more likely to reach goals once we have written them down and that isn't shocking.
To write them down we have to name them, claim them and define them. We take them out of the "nebulous gray." It is far easier to reach for concrete benchmarks than existentialism.
Forget Realistic—Realistic is For Wimps
Most of us underestimate what we can accomplish. When you write your goal, rewrite it just a little bigger. What's the worse that can happen? You accomplish more than you thought you could?
Years ago I did this. I wrote down, In 2011 I am going to get an agent. Then I crossed it out and wrote In 2011 I am going to sign with one of the best agents in NYC.
See, we never know what is going to happen or what chain of events might open what door. In early 2011, I wrote a little book called Are You There, Blog? It's Me Writer. I was still an unknown and this was also during the days that most people were unconvinced social media was fundamental shift in global civilization we all NOW know it to be.
When I wrote the book, I needed blurbs, so I made up a Hail Mary List. These were authors who I loved, who were SO BIG I doubted my e-mail would ever even get through.
On that Hail Mary List was NYTBSA James Rollins. Not only did I get through, he'd actually read my first book We Are Not Alone—The Writer's Guide to Social Media and was MY FAN *falls over dead*. He asked if it would be okay of he sent my book to HIS agent…who later that year signed me (who happened to be one of THE biggest agents in NYC). I not only got a blurb and a friend, I got an agent.
What if I'd limited my goal?
Visualize Process NOT Fantasy
A critical mistake I made when I first decided to become a writer was I spent far too much time "visualizing" the success. In my head I dreamed of sales, wealth, book tours and being able to travel the world to research and people lined out the door to meet me and seeing stacks of displays of my books.
Nothing per se wrong with that but just that is fantasy and can be unhealthy.
To reach any big dream, we must fall in love with the process.
I am up almost every morning at 4:15 a.m. That seriously sucked in the beginning. I had to learn to fall in love with it. Blogging? SUCKED for the first 2 years. It was so hard week after week, month after month writing thousands of words to entertain CheapXanaxANDYoungCoeds.com.
But I knew I was honing my skills. I was learning to write leaner, meaner, faster and cleaner. I was training myself to eat deadlines for breakfast. I was training out my perfectionism that held onto things instead of shipping. I was opening myself to public criticism, gaining fans, feedback and thicker skin.
Through a lot of really humbling lessons, I had to fall in love with all of it, not just the fantasy of what "one day" might be. Writers' groups are all filled with people who never have pages to read, who never finish what they start. They don't blog, don't build a platform, but all have dreams that HBO will be replacing Game of Thrones with their series.
Nothing wrong with that goal, btw. Just don't leave it at that. Do the WORK.
To the Pain—Set Accountability
In the New Year we all have goals. Maybe you want to finish the novel by a certain day or query by a certain day or publish by a certain day. I love pleasure but pain is good for the soul. Put some stakes on it. Go purchase something you really want. Preferably something a close friend (ideally a mean friend) also wants.
Maybe it is a $50 gift card. Maybe a new gaming system, spa package, or 90 minute massage. Whatever.
Put it in the pot and then, if you make your goal by the date it's yours, if not? It goes to your accountability partner. Yes, rewards and treats are all fabulous but they are a tad too easy.
Often we are far more motivated when it will cost us something. The more it costs us, the more motivated we are to accomplish said goal.
So if a loved one gives you a fat gift card for Christmas, maybe throw that in the Goal Pot and take a gamble for a greater ROI. Use that $100 Amazon card for cool stuff you want to reward yourself with, but also as fuel to finish all revisions by February 15th 😉 .
Ditch Negative People, Whiners & Complainers
Seriously. You wouldn't let someone bring their dog in your house and let it crap on your floor, would you? Yes, if someone brings a pet over and once in a while there is an oops? OKAY. But that is very different than someone bringing over their dog and using your living room as a kennel floor.
So why let people crap non-stop in your head? Sorry for the gross image but that's what that is. Whining and complaining do nothing but increase stress levels which shrinks the size of the hippocampus leading to us being progressively more stupid.
Yes, science has proven that hanging out with whiners makes us stupid.
Everyone has a bad day and that isn't what I'm talking about. Give them 60 seconds and then enough. Start talking about solutions. People who are chronically negative or addicted to whining? Bye.
I've learned to determine the ASKHOLES in my life and get rid of them. You know what an askhole is? That is a person who is always in a crisis, who always needs advice and after they have derailed your life and gotten your advice? Does whatever the hell stupid thing they are going to do anyway…often leading to the next crisis that you WARNED them would happen.
Turn them loose.
Surround Yourself With Accountability & Excellence
We are who we hang around. Character is contagious. When I was new as a writer I didn't understand how important this was. I thought I could fight the inertia of mediocrity with sheer willpower. I also thought that if I was part of a group of people who said they wanted to be writers, well then they wanted to be writers. Right?
Actions speak louder than words.
Writers write. Not all critique groups and writing groups are good for you. If you want to join a writing group, look to how many people in the group are published, multi-published, awarded, writing full-time, blogging, etc. If it's just a bunch of people who meet and have coffee and talk about writing? Your time is better spent at home writing. Hanging out with that garbage is like hanging around radioactive material and thinking you are fine.
Negativity and mediocrity are invisible particles that punch your will and your dreams full of tiny holes until they collapse and die. Yes, you can try to ward it off and buffer from it but the best course of action? Stop growing
strawberries writing dreams at Chernobyl crappy writing groups.
One of the things I've worked hard to do is to make myself available on W.A.N.A.Tribe. Back in November during Nanowrimo I introduced writing sprints in the Main Room IM field.
I rallied everyone at 8:45 a.m. CST and we did as many as 5 sprints. 30 minutes per sprint. Write as much as you could. Report back the numbers. Then we took a break and came back at 3:30 p.m. CST and did more sprints.
Everyone who participated finished Nano. I finished in 16 days WITH the flu while blogging.
Once Nano ended, I changed the plan. We now still meet every morning at 8:45 a.m. CST and we do what I call Blackouts. 40 minutes to do as much work as you can then report back to the group what you accomplished.
Writers now get to see MY operational tempo, since I'm almost always leading the team. We do as many as five Blackouts before lunchtime. Then, we rally back at 3:30 after I get Spawn for more Blackouts. I generally do about 3 more.
Writers get to see what I accomplish in that 40 minute block. What is my word count? How much did I get edited? How many Blackout sessions did it take to get my blog written and posted?
This doesn't mean people need to copy me, but I tell you, it helped me TREMENDOUSLY when social media peeled back the curtain and I started seeing how authors I admired worked and got so much accomplished.
Also, this current system offers accountability and makes all of us push harder. There is a level of healthy competition and since we are a TEAM, it is far harder for me to say, "Eh, I think I will take today off."
Up Your Operational Tempo
Believe it or not, I am not the strongest member of my team, merely the best looking #ITSACURSE. There are writers on our Blackout Team who blow ME away. Always look to surround yourself with people stronger than yourself and don't buy your own excuses.
Get comfortable being uncomfortable.
You may not be able to do this on your own. You may lack the discipline so come over to W.A.N.A.Tribe and join out Blackouts. Sometimes, you need guidance from a pro. Take one of the classes listed below. Or, feel free to e-mail me at kristen at wana intl dot com. I do consulting for social media, blogging and branding, but I also can help with your books. Instead of wasting another year revising or rewriting, a small investment in time with me might save you months or years of work.
This job is never easy, but it is always AWESOME.
What are your thoughts? Do you see some suggestions here that might improve your odds of reaching your goals? Do you try to go it alone too much? Do you give negative people too much permission to crap in your life? Do you think you might go a tad too easy on yourself? I hope to see y'all over at W.A.N.A. Tribe! No excuses this year that you have no system of support 😛 .
Remember to check out the new classes listed at W.A.N.A International. Your friends and family can get you something you need for Christmas. Social Media for Writers, Blogging for Writers, and Branding for Authors.
Also, I have one craft class listed. Your Story in a Sentence—Crafting Your Log-Line. Our stories should be simple enough to tell someone what the book is about in ONE sentence. If we can't do this, often there is a plot problem. This class is great for teaching you how to be master plotters and the first TEN SIGNUPS get their log-line shredded for free, so you will be agent ready for the coming year.
Enough of that…
I love hearing from you!
To prove it and show my love, for the month of DECEMBER, everyone who leaves a comment I will put your name in a hat. If you comment and link back to my blog on your blog, you get your name in the hat twice. What do you win? The unvarnished truth from yours truly. I will pick a winner once a month and it will be a critique of the first 20 pages of your novel, or your query letter, or your synopsis (5 pages or less).
For those who need help building a platform and keeping it SIMPLE, pick up a copy of my latest social media/branding book Rise of the Machines—Human Authors in a Digital World on AMAZON, iBooks, or Nook.
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What Makes a "Real" Writer?
Posted by Author Kristen Lamb in Writing on March 30, 2015
I'm finally home from speaking in Pennsylvania. Was honored to keynote for The Write Stuff Conference and super sad to leave. I get so attached to the writers and miss them when I have to go. Their passion, imagination and enthusiasm never fails to inspire me. I'd keep them and collect them in my basement except apparently this is called "taking hostages" and is "illegal" *rolls eyes*
…that, and I don't have a basement.
I never prepare a speech. I've tried. But I am too ADD and end up ignoring/forgetting everything I prepared, so why not save time? Also, I present quite often and never want attendees to feel like they will hear the same things from me. Every class, every presentation is new. I love listening to those around me so my content fits better because it's custom made.
This said, when I arrived in Pennsylvania, I had no idea what my keynote would be about specifically, so I had to keep my ears open for the common themes.
There is NO Aspiring
Some of you have fallen for this when I speak. I will begin and ask how many aspiring writers are in the room. Yes, it is a trick question and yeah, it is more than a little evil of me, but it never fails to make a point. When the timid new writers "follow instructions" and raise their hands I yell, "NO! Stop it! You are a pre-published writer. Do or do not; there is NO TRY."
Screw aspiring. Aspiring is for the weak and it takes guts to do this job.
Hey, I did it too. When I was new, I'd written tens of thousands of words, spent every spare moment reading about writing, studying, going to writing groups instead of the mall. I spent every spare bit of money on conferences instead of a vacation…but I was aspiring? NO. Writers WRITE. Stop being existential. We are REAL.
No one meets a lawyer who just passed the bar and asks if they are a "real" lawyer.
Really? A lawyer? How many cases have you won?
Granted there are aspiring writers. They are pretty easy to spot because they say the same crap:
Yes, well I want to write a book, but I just have to find the free time.
My life is SO interesting. It would make a GREAT novel. Hey, how about I give you my story, you write the book and I will give you half?
Um? NO.
Writers Deserve RESPECT
This is my new hot button and I'm going to handle future interactions very differently because I've had enough. I spent all day Wednesday traveling across the country. Didn't get to bed until midnight. Presented from 8:00 in the morning until almost 6:00 in the evening. We were rallying to leave for dinner at the bar of the hotel's restaurant and THIS conversation actually happened:
Guy at Bar: *looks at me and two fellow authors and starts polite conversation* What are you doing here?
Me: We are writers.
GAB: Really? *genuine shock face* You are writers? Like…real writers?
Me: Yes.
GAB: Real writers? People actually DO that? For a living? This is your real job?
Me: Yes.
GAB: How much money do you make? You can live off that?
OKAY, I am DONE. I have had this conversation WAY too many times. So, the next time someone does this the conversation is going to look like this:
Me: Well, what do you do?
GAB: Human resources. I'm an HR manager.
Me: Wow *genuine shock face*. People DO that? That's a real job?
GAB: Yes.
Me: Are you sure? Don't they have an app for that? Or robots? How many people are you in charge of? Can people make money at that? Really? HR. You can live off that? How much money do you make?
And THIS is why Kristen requires adult supervision 😀
Thing is, yes humans do write for fun or for a hobby. But if we are asked what our job is and respond, "I'm a writer" odds are we are not writing bad haiku on a Starbuck's napkin all day.
And I get it. Writers (creative professionals) are like unicorns. Everyone knows about them just they would be pretty shocked to meet a real one. Yet, what other profession has to endure this amount of disrespect? No one else has to cough up a tax return or show a profit to prove their job exists.
Keep this in mind. If we don't respect who we are and what we do then why would anyone else?
Stop Apologizing
I hate the term "aspiring writer" because it takes guts to do this job. Everyone loves what we do. Their lives would implode without it. Without writers there would be no entertainment, no instruction, no industry. No movies, no television series, no books, no manuals, textbooks, magazines, newspapers, trade journals, warning labels, laws, speeches, and all songs would be instrumental. No lyrics. Heck there wouldn't even be an Internet.
It would be all pictures of cats.
Modern society hinges on writers. If we can take a step back and truly take in all we contribute it's easier to own our profession and value it. Most people take what we do for granted because they fail to make the connection that their favorite television show began as an idea and started with a writer.
They just assume they will log onto the Internet and be able to google anything they want. It's easy to forget someone wrote that information.
So yes, I get it. This is a tough job. But if what we do didn't matter then why is it dictators arrest and shoot the writers first? 😉
Writing is More than Literacy
Yes, it is probably great to be literate to become a writer, but what we do is more than stringing words together in sentences. We have a unique set of eyes and see the world in a way mere mortals cannot. I saw this mannequin while out shopping with the family. I guarantee you that hundreds of people had passed by without wondering why the mannequins were getting too fat for their cardigans.
Before my keynote, a fellow writer told me the story of how he was staying in a hotel that was run by foreigners. We've all seen the signs clearly written by someone who didn't have English as a first language. Anyway, he's in the bathroom and there is this sign that reads:
Beware of Soap Dish
I have NO idea what that warning was trying to convey, but as a writer? What the hell is so dangerous about that soap dish? It is demonic? Does it try to eat people when they sleep? Does it steal souls? I might have even had to call management to know exactly what makes this particular soap dish so sketchy…
And THIS is the stuff writers think about 😀 .
What are your thoughts? Do you struggle with apologizing for what you do? Do you get tired of having to justify your profession? Are you now going to ask people if they are real doctors?
I love hearing from you!
To prove it and show my love, for the month of MARCH, everyone who leaves a comment I will put your name in a hat. If you comment and link back to my blog on your blog, you get your name in the hat twice. What do you win? The unvarnished truth from yours truly. I will pick a winner once a month and it will be a critique of the first 20 pages of your novel, or your query letter, or your synopsis (5 pages or less).
Also, for more help on how to use characters to ratchet anxiety to the nerve-shreding level, I am finally back teaching and offering my Understanding the Antagonist Class on April 18th and YES, it is recorded in case you miss or need to listen again because this class is jammed with information.
I LOVE teaching this simply because our antagonists are pivotal for writing a story (series) readers can't put down. Yet, too often we fail to harness characters for max effect. I look forward to seeing you there! I also offer the Gold level for one-on-one. Maybe you've hit a dead end. Your story is so confusing you need a GPS and a team of sherpas to find the original idea. Instead of wasting time with misguided revisions, I can help you triage your WIP and WHIP it into fighting form 😀 .
For those who need help building a platform and keeping it SIMPLE, pick up a copy of my latest social media/branding book Rise of the Machines—Human Authors in a Digital World on AMAZON, iBooks, or Nook.
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From Newbie to Master—Understanding the Writer's Journey
Posted by Author Kristen Lamb in Writing Tips on March 3, 2015
The mark of a pro is they make whatever we want to do look easy. From running a business to playing guitar to wicked cool Kung Fu moves, masters rarely seem to even break a sweat. Same with authors. With the pros? The story flows, pulls us in, and appears seamless and effortless.
Just check out Ronda Rousey's 14 second record-breaking WIN from this past weekend for an idea of JUST how EASY pros make things look…
Many of us decided to become writers because we grew up loving books. Because good storytellers are masters of what they do, we can easily fall into a misguided notion that "writing is easy." Granted there are a rare few exceptions, but most of us will go through three acts (stages) in this career if we stick it through.
Act One—The Neophyte
This is when we are brand new. We've never read a craft book and the words flow. We never run out of words to put on a page because we are like a kid banging away on a piano having fun and making up "music." We aren't held back or hindered by any structure or rules and we have amazing energy and passion.
But then we go to our first critique and hear words like "POV" and "narrative structure." We learn that maybe we don't know as much as we think we do and that we need to do some training. We also finally understand why so many famous authors drank…a lot.
Act Two—The Apprentice
The Apprentice Phase comes next. This is where we might read craft books, take classes, go to conferences and listen to lectures. During the early parts of this phase, books likely will no longer be fun. Neither will movies. In fact, most of your family will likely ban you from "Movie Night." Everything now becomes part of our training. We no longer look at stories the same way.
The apprentice phase is tough, and for many of us, it takes the all the fun out of writing. The apprentice phase is our Act II. It's the looooongest, but filled with the most growth and change. It's the span of suck before the breakthrough.
I've studied other forms of martial arts, but I am relatively new to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Right now I am in the span of SUUUUUCK. When I started as a neophyte, I "seemed" to do better because I just muscled my way around on the ground and being naturally strong? It worked…against an equally green opponent.
But it also wore me out and gave me more than a fair share of injuries. I had to learn technique. Technique looks awesome when Coach does it. It looks easy on theYouTube videos.
When I do it? Eh…not pretty and NOT easy.
Right now, I'm losing most of…ok, all of my rounds, which is tough on the ego but easier on the joints. I'm focusing more on "rules", finesse and drilling the basics because I know that in time? It will pay off. Right now is NOT the time for me to try and be "creative." There is also NO substitute for time on the mat.
Same with writing. Many shy away from craft books because they fear "rules" will ruin their creativity. Truth? They will, but only for a little while 😉 .
Eventually we realize that rules were made to be broken. BUT, the difference between the artist and the hack is that the artist knows the rules and thus HOW to break them and WHY and WHEN. We start to see rules as tools.
As we move through The Apprentice Phase and we train ourselves to execute all these moves together—POV, structure, conflict, tension, setting, description, dialogue, plot arc, character arc—it eventually becomes easier. In fact, a good sign we are at the latter part of the apprentice phase is when the rules become so ingrained we rarely think about them.
We just
fight write.
We've read so much fiction, watched (and studied) so many movies, read so many craft books, heard so many lectures, and practiced so much writing that all the "rules" are now becoming instinct and, by feel, we are starting to know where and how to bend, break or ignore them.
Like anything, there is NO substitute for DOING. Watching Ronda Rousey videos is a good idea for understanding ground-fighting, but it can't take the place of mat time. Reading, taking classes, studying cannot replace writing crap until we don't write crap.
At the end of the apprentice phase, writing is now starting to become fun again, much like it was in the beginning when we were banging away on the
piano keyboard. Like the fighter who instinctively knows to arm bar an opponent without conscious thought, we now find more and more of the "right" words and timing without bursting brain cells.
The trick is sticking it through the apprentice phase long enough to engrain the fundamentals into the subconscious.
This is where we all want to be. In fact, we all want this on Day One, but sadly, I believe this Day One Master is reserved for only a handful of literary savants. Mastery is when we return to that childlike beginning. We write with abandon and joy and, since the elements of fiction are now part of our DNA, our literary marrow, what we produce isn't the off-key clanging of a neophyte, it's actually a real story worth reading. Granted, it isn't all kittens and rainbows. Masters have a lot of pressure to be perpetual geniuses.
I believe most of us, if we stick to this long enough, will always be vacillating between the Advanced Apprentice Phase and the Mastery Phase. If we choose to try a totally new genre, we might even be back to Neophyte (though this will pass more quickly than the first time).
We have to to keep growing. The best writers still pick up craft books, refresh themselves in certain areas, read other authors they enjoy and admire to see if they can grow in some new area. Masters seek to always add new and fresh elements to the fiction.
The key to doing well in this business is to:
1. Embrace the Day of Small Beginnings—Starting is often the hardest part. Enjoy being new. Enjoy that feeling because you will reconnect with it later because you recognize it.
2. Understand We All Have an Apprentice Phase—We will all be Early, Intermediate, then Advanced Apprentices. How quickly we move through these will be dictated by dedication, hard work and, to a degree, natural talent.
3. No One Begins as a Master and Few Remain Permanent Masters—Every NYTBSA was once a newbie, too. When we understand this career has a process, it's easier to lighten up and give ourselves permission to be imperfect, to not know everything. Many writers get discouraged and give up too soon because they don't understand there is a process, and they believe they should be "Masters" right away.
Hey, I did.
We need to give ourselves permission to grow. If we love and respect our craft, we will always be learning, so we will continue to dip back into "Apprentice" to refine our art even further.
Does this make you feel better to know this career has a process? Are you in the Act II span of suck and getting weary? What are you doing to remain focused? Which part has you the most discouraged? Write with the abandon of the Neophyte then edit with the eyes of an Advanced Apprentice or Master 😉 .
I love hearing from you!
To prove it and show my love, for the month of MARCH, everyone who leaves a comment I will put your name in a hat. If you comment and link back to my blog on your blog, you get your name in the hat twice. What do you win? The unvarnished truth from yours truly. I will pick a winner once a month and it will be a critique of the first 20 pages of your novel, or your query letter, or your synopsis (5 pages or less).
The winner for February is Monica Karel. Congratulations! Please send your 5000 word WORD document to kristen @ wana intl dot com.
For those who need help building a platform and keeping it SIMPLE, pick up a copy of my latest social media/branding book Rise of the Machines—Human Authors in a Digital World on AMAZON, iBooks, or Nook.
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Can Being Tired Make Us Better Writers?
Posted by Author Kristen Lamb in Writing Tips on December 5, 2014
Last month I participated in NaNoWriMo even though it's the holidays and, as many of you know, I am battling the last vestiges of Shingles which makes me tired, like down to the BONES tired. But, lest I go crazy, I had to write, because that's what writers do. We aren't happy unless we are writing something.
I figured in the beginning I likely wouldn't make the 50,000 word mark not only because of feeling puny, but I also have other writing that doesn't count toward NaNo.
Yet, the interesting thing is, being tired can have benefits. If we wait until that celestial alignment when the kids aren't sick, our pants fit, there isn't a heap of laundry, the garage is clean, the junk mail sorted, and we feel energized? We won't get a lot of writing done, so here is some food for thought next time you believe you're too tired to write.
Embrace Being Tired
Okay, first I want to take a moment to acknowledge that we do need rest. We need breaks and days off. Shingles had taught me I am seriously HUMAN. It's actually humbled me to be better at resting because I love what I do and this makes it easy to overdo.
I'm going to be writing a new NF in 2015, so I needed to REST my left brain and let RIGHT BRAIN have some time to play (ergo NaNo).
Your Body Will Lie to You
Beyond sickness and disasters, our bodies tend to be a bit lazy, and they like to lie. They tell us we need a day or two or twenty off, and the longer we're away from the work, the easier it is to let things slip, to see a new shiny and start a newer, more exciting project. In this business, time is our enemy. Always remember this.
It Will Never Be a "Perfect" Time
We want to wait until we're rested, the kids are out of the house, until we have total quiet, a new computer, the list goes on. To do this job at a professional level, we have to learn to write no matter what. This is a profession, not a playpen. People often groan that NaNoWriMo is in November and there is all this shopping and cleaning and cooking.
Okay, well, I used to work in sales and they still expected my tail to be on the road selling industrial paper from Mexico to Missouri until that scrawny four days off for vaca. If I was sick? I knew when I came back, I had to bust tail to catch up. Family emergency? Okay, tend it, but then back to get your $#!& done.
Coffee was for closers.
Writing (for those who want to make a living at this) should apply the same rules as other professions. Granted, it's a LOT harder because no boss is going to write us up or chew us out if we don't write…and most of our family and friends secretly believe all we do is play with our imaginary friends and we don't have a "real" job. We need A LOT more self-discipline than other jobs.
I write every day but Sunday with a preschooler whacking me 47 times with a NERF sword before breakfast, all the while Paw Patrol is blazing in the background. I've learned to un-see the dirty dishes, the laundry that needs folding, and the Christmas tree that was attacked by my cats in the middle of the night and needs triage.
Time is the Enemy
When writing anything (but especially fiction) taking time off can kill momentum. We need to go back, reread, familiarize ourselves with the story and characters (since we've slept since that last bit we wrote). This can lead to editing the beginning to death and stalls forward progress. We get bogged down in the first part of the book.
Take too much time? Likely, you'll have to start all over.
I did. Yes, even NF authors are vulnerable to time. Back in 2011 I scored a premium NYC agent and over a year and a half later? The project was going nowhere. When I finally decided to self-publish my most current social media book, Rise of the Machines—Human Authors in a Digital World, I spent more effort trying to retrofit work I'd done for my agent back in 2011 than I want to admit. Finally, I just scrapped the whole thing and started over. 150 pages of wasted work all because I didn't keep writing.
My mistake. Won't happen again.
Sometimes Being Tired Produces Better Writing
I know a lot of you work day jobs, are full-time caregivers, and you're squeezing in writing when you can. GO YOU! You're superheroes, and always remember that. Keep pressing.
Yet, one mistake we make is we don't tackle the novel when we're tired. We believe our work will be better if we've rested.
This isn't necessarily true.
Candy runs a workshop she calls Fast Draft. In Fast Draft, you write your novel in two weeks. It is one of the toughest challenges I've ever done, but it works. No editing, no going back, just keep going forward. By Day Three, I promise you'll feel like you've been tossed in a bag of hammers and shaken.
One of the biggest enemies of great fiction is Conscious Mind. Our internal editor lives there and won't let us move forward until we get rid of "was clusters" or add more detail to that "jungle scene." Conscious Mind will have you "being responsible" and browsing the Internet looking at South American plants instead of writing.
Conscious Mind is the Bigger Sibling Who Constantly Calls Little Sister (Subconscious Mind) Stupid and Tells Her to Shut Up
Subconscious Mind is the primal mind. It sees things we don't, makes connections Conscious Mind, also known as "The Thinking Brain", misses. Thinking Brain is a bit of a Bossy Pants and likes to shove Subconscious Mind around, give it wedgies and promise that it can jump off the roof with an umbrella and float down.
Hey, Penguin does it all the time.
The best way to get your Subconscious Mind to help you is to wear the bigger, bossier sibling out. This allows the Little Guy an opportunity to help you make magic without the bigger sibling butting in.
Conscious Mind is the Inner Editor, the Inner Critic, the Nit-Picker, whereas the Subconscious Mind (the Limbic and "primitive" brain) is the one who sees value in finger painting and advantages of glitter.
Subconscious Mind will thrust you deeper into the story. Subconscious Mind is like a toddler who jumps head-first off the couch. No fear. There will be greater emotion and the writing often is more visceral. Subconscious Mind plants Seeds of Awesomeness that you will see flower into something more amazing that you believed you were capable of.
But that won't happen unless Conscious Mind is exhausted and too tired to argue and bully it's littler sibling.
So if you're struggling with the WIP, you might just be a little "too rested." This isn't to say we don't take care of ourselves, but total immersion and pressing on even when we're worn out and would trade everything we own for a nap does have major advantages.
It's also why I didn't kill myself to make the 50,000 words for NaNo, but am still plugging. If I take too much time away from the novel, I KNOW I can cause myself more grief than I care to deal with.
Have you ever done a fast draft? Did it help? Do you write even when you're tired? What has that shown you? What are your thoughts? Questions? War stories?
I love hearing from you!
To prove it and show my love, for the month of DECEMBER, everyone who leaves a comment I will put your name in a hat. If you comment and link back to my blog on your blog, you get your name in the hat twice. What do you win? The unvarnished truth from yours truly. I will pick a winner once a month and it will be a critique of the first 20 pages of your novel, or your query letter, or your synopsis (5 pages or less).
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Writing Tip #2–Writing is Pain, Learn to Take a Hit
Posted by Author Kristen Lamb in Writing on January 4, 2013
Want to be a writer? Expect suffering. Lose your illusions and embrace pain. Writing is not always a glittery unicorn hug, and we don't get what we wish for, we get what we work for. This profession is not for the faint of heart, namely because 1) it's hard 2) it's often under appreciated 3) great writing requires us to expose our soft tender parts and hope no one carves them out with a spork.
I've said it before. Just because we have command of our native language in no way qualifies us to create a work of art spanning 50,000 to 100,000 or more words. We need to study, practice, apply what we learn (WRITING), and grow a damn thick skin.
Grow Rhino Skin
No matter how well we write, someone won't like our stuff. It's just reality. Ten years ago, I went to my first critique thinking every word I wrote was a rainbow kitten dream. Guess what? The group slayed me–it was all blood, teeth and adverbs. Later, when questioned, no one could positively ID the body (of work).
I sat in the parking lot alone crying, but I didn't give up.
How badly do you want the dream?
Expect criticism, and get good at taking it…but not taking it personally. Remember, others have a right to be wrong. This is why it's critical to know your craft. Any whackadoodle can join a writers' group and give advice. If we don't know our stuff, then when someone suggests we add a bunch of stupid description or adverbs we can politely thank them…and then gift them a copy of On Writing.
Know your $#!t.
Learn all you can and embrace peer review. Writing groups, conferences and workshops are good investments of time and money. If you can't find a writing group, or you live in an area with no real access to a writing group, hop on to WANATribe and find the tribe that suits you best, or create one.
You are no longer writing for fun, Sweetheart. You are writing for keeps, so train like it. Read books, take classes, go over to WANA International and sign up for a class.
Learn to Take a Hit
Boxers volunteer for others to punch them in the stomach over and over and over to toughen their solar plexus so that, when it comes time to hop in the ring, their bodies are hardened and can take a hit. I see too many newbie writers more interested in the "glamorous life" of being a writer, than the grueling pain of the professional, so they enter the "ring" soft, sloppy, and untrained.
They treat publishing a book like furnishing a Barbie Dream House, and are more interested in cover art and bookmarks than the quality of the manuscript. Too often, they self-publish too soon and with no peer review. The first bad review they get, they go nuclear and give up.
This is a profession, not a playpen. Toughen up. Learn to take a hit and get back up.
You know I am here for you guys. I've been here for a lot of years and am rooting for your success, no matter which publishing path you choose to take. But real love is tough love.
All of these lessons I had to learn, too. I used to goof off, write when I felt like it, constantly start new projects, and daydream instead of getting my @$$ in the chair and writing. I had to put away my Author Barbie Dream House and grow up, too.
If I can do it, anyone can do it. Trust me.
Social media is critical, but books are the most important. Thrilled you stopped to read this, but back to work.
It writes the words or it gets the hose! ~Kristen Lamb
I love hearing from you!
To prove it and show my love, for the month of January, everyone who leaves a comment I will put your name in a hat. If you comment and link back to my blog on your blog, you get your name in the hat twice. If you leave a comment, and link back to my blog, and mention my book We Are Not Alone in your blog…you get your name in the hat THREE times. What do you win? The unvarnished truth from yours truly.
I will pick a winner once a month and it will be a critique of the first 20 pages of your novel, or your query letter, or your synopsis (5 pages or less).
NOTE: December's winner will be announced when I return from Seattle.
And also, winners have a limited time to claim the prize, because what's happening is there are actually quite a few people who never claim the critique, so I never know if the spam folder ate it or to look for it and then people miss out. I will also give my corporate e-mail to insure we connect and I will only have a week to return the 20 page edit.
At the end of January I will pick a winner for the monthly prize. Good luck!
I also hope you pick up copies of my best-selling books We Are Not Alone–The Writer's Guide to Social Media and Are You There, Blog? It's Me, Writer . And both are recommended by the hottest agents and biggest authors in the biz. My methods teach you how to make building your author platform FUN. Build a platform and still have time left to write great books.
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|Rivers: Why would they change?
|05.14.09 at 1:26 pm ET
ORLANDO – Dwight Howard called for more touches following his team's collapse in Game 5 in Boston. Then he met with his coach to apologize for publicly ripping him.
Now he's guaranteeing a magical comeback against the Celtics.
Celtics coach Doc Rivers said Thursday morning that while the story gives everyone covering the series and fans plenty to talk about, there's something everyone's forgetting.
Why would the Magic suddenly change a game plan that produced a 28-point lead in a Game 1 win, a 21-point win in Game 3, fourth-quarter leads in Games 4 and 5 only to have the Celtics stun them in both. Read the rest of this entry »
|Perk: Howard has a 'point to prove'
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ORLANDO – The man assigned with covering Dwight Howard expects a Superman effort from the outspoken Orlando center.
"Yeah, he'll probably come out with a point to prove," Celtics center Kendrick Perkins said at Thursday's shoot around at Amway Arena. "I know he wants to be the best player on the court, so yeah he is going to come out with a point to prove."
Following Tuesday night's game, Howard criticized his head coach Stan Van Gundy for not calling plays for him to get the ball during the last five minutes as the Magic watched a 10-point lead evaporate as the Celtics prevailed 92-88, giving Boston a 3-2 series lead.
But Perkins, who is responsible for defending the Orlando big man, feels Howard has been getting plenty of touches. Read the rest of this entry »
|Howard guarantees series win
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Just a day after calling out his coach, Dwight Howard is confident the Orlando Magic will beat the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference Semifinals.
"We can't give up hope," Howard told reporters on Wednesday. "We're in this series to win it. We are going to win this series."
Howard criticized head coach Stan Van Gundy following the Magic's Game 5 loss. He questioned why he wasn't being allowed to 'dominate,' as he barely touched the ball down the stretch of their fourth quarter collapse. Howard and Van Gundy seemed to have reached a resolution.
"Getting the ball shouldn't be a big issue for me," Howard said. "There's more ways to dominate the game than scoring. Me and coach, we talked about that. I just can't let my frustrations get to the point where I'll say anything."
Game 6 will be played tonight in Orlando. The Celtics lead the series 3-2.
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|05.09.09 at 4:47 pm ET
Before the start of the playoffs Kevin Garnett teamed up with Dwight Howard for adidas to share some postseason knowledge. KG revealed the Celtics blowout of the Lakers in Game 6 of the NBA Finals solidified last season's championship run for him. After the Magic's 21-point win over the Celtics in Game 3, it looks like Howard has picked up on a few things. For more videos, click here.
|Comeback just fool's gold
|05.05.09 at 3:29 pm ET
WALTHAM – Down 28 points midway through the third quarter, the Celtics nearly completed the biggest comeback in their great playoff history on Monday night.
But to coach Doc Rivers, that provided no consolation. And he made that much very clear at practice on Tuesday at the team's practice facility, one day after dropping Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals to Orlando, 95-90, at TD Banknorth Garden.
"Execution was bad, defense was bad, offense was bad," Rivers said. "And I don't lean on the fact that we had a chance to win the game. I agree with Van Gundy. I'd focus more on the fact that they were up 28 points. To me, that's far more important to me than we made a fool's gold run that got everybody excited. That does nothing for me." Read the rest of this entry »
|Howard: Perkins makes me better
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Dwight Howard has always been generous with his compliments of Kendrick Perkins.
"Kendrick did a Kareem shake tonight," Howard said after the Magic's win in March. "It shocked me, but that just shows me that those guys have really been working on their game and they've gotten a lot better.'
He was just as quick to credit Perkins after the Magic's victory in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals. Howard scored just seven points and got to the line once in the second half.
'They played great defense tonight,' Howard said of the Celtics. 'They pushed me out, I didn't get into a good rhythm. Kendrick (Perkins) kept a body on me and that's what he's supposed to do. I have a lot of respect for Kendrick and he makes me a better player, something I look forward to next game. Me and Pat (assistant coach Patrick Ewing) will watch film, see what I need to do so that it won't be another night like tonight.'
Howard and Perkins will battle again in Game 2 on Wednesday night.
|Big men, old friends
|05.04.09 at 7:35 pm ET
Orlando's Dwight Howard and Boston's Kendrick Perkins have always been close.
They will renew acquaintances for the next two weeks when they battle in the low post in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal series between the Celtics and Magic.
But ever since the two came into the league four seasons ago, the two have always shared a bond that only NBA big men can share.
"Me and Kendrick, we worked out together when we first got into the NBA at a big-man camp, with Clifford Ray actually," Howard said before Game 1 on Monday night. "I think he saw how hard I worked and how skinny I was when I first got drafted. And how was I was able to grow into myself and my game."
Clifford Ray would be the Celtics coach dedicated to coaching big men. Quite the advantage for Perkins as he looks for any and all advantages.
"I always battled," Howard said. "Back then we had a lot fun together working out and just hanging out and just learning about each other."
Kendrick Perkins said earlier in the day that he isn't losing any sleep worrying about guarding Howard. And Howard said on Monday evening that Perkins has earned the right to be that confident.
"I've seen him grow over the past couple of years and he's done an excellent job for their team," Howard said.
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By Elene Sallinger
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Mona Van Hove has spent a lifetime trying to let go of her dreams of a man that doesn't want her. From the moment she saw him, Mona knew that Wade Stalls was the only man for her. Too bad he ran the other way as fast as he could.
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Wade Stalls whipped his pick-up into a parking spot and checked his reflection in the rear-view mirror. Today was the day. He'd let this go on too damn long.
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Not today.
He wasn't getting in line today. He wasn't waiting passively. He was going to seize the bull by the –
His chest squeezed and the breath in his chest dissolved. Scanning the café, he saw no trace of his quarry. With his plans derailed, he was at a loss. The adrenaline that had been sustaining him began to fade.
With no better course of action presenting itself, Wade placed his order and took up residence at a table that afforded him a complete view of the café. Another alteration for him. Usually, he'd be so frustrated by the time he'd gotten his coffee, he'd just leave. He didn't think he'd ever taken the time to sit down.
Wade had never really noticed how packed the café was. Or, how everyone seemed so happy. The tables were filled with students and couples. Everyone was chattering and not just with each other. They talked amongst tables like old friends.
She'd done well for herself and he was proud of her. On the other hand, she treated him like he had the plague. For the life of him, Wade couldn't figure it out. He didn't think he'd ever done anything to her to warrant it. And, he very much wanted to do things to her. Lots of things. Lots of dirty, erotic things that put those full, luscious lips to use.
He shifted in his seat acutely aware he was getting a hard-on in public. That was not acceptable. He hadn't come here to indulge his fantasies of her. He did that often enough in private.
He'd come to confront her once and for all and to ask her out. He was tired of being a chicken-shit coward around her. He wanted her. Hell, he'd wanted her as far back as high school, but she'd been too young. His conscience hadn't allowed him to go there. She wasn't too young any more, though. Nope, she was all woman now and it was time for him to man up and remember he had a pair.
A glance at his watch told him his time was running out. Where was she? This was highly unusual for Mona. Her schedule was as routine as his and he counted on seeing her every morning. He'd arrived early today just to be certain he had time to talk with her, but he had a job site to get to and he made a point of always being on time. Wade had developed a reputation as the man to turn to for contracting in River Rock and did what it took to maintain it.
Frustrated at having his plans thwarted, Wade picked up his coffee and stood. Turning toward the exit, he felt his knees give way at the sight that greeted him. With a hard thunk, he landed back in the chair. Paralysed, he could do nothing but watch.
Elene Sallinger
Hailing from Washington, DC, Elene Sallinger first caught the writing bug in 2004 after writing and illustrating several stories for her then four-year-old daughter. Her writing career has encompassed two award-winning children's stories, a stint as a consumer-education advocate, as well as writing her debut novel, Awakening - a novel of erotic fiction that won the New Writing Competition at the Festival of Romance 2011.
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David's Family Enlarged
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Jul 26, 2007 10:28 PM
This isn't limited to $0, I suppose, but that's what I'm working with in this moment. I want to use $0 to name my log and error files - sounds like a simple, reasonable thing to do. But my MaxL files are named filename.mxl, and I want my log and error files to be named filename.log and filename.err, not filename.mxl.log and filename.mxl.err.

Is there a way to maniplate $0, or any string variable for that matter, in MaxL to trim those last 3 characters? I tried one silly way of backspacing over them, but that didn't work. What I'm doing now is this:

set $dirLogs = '$ARBORPATH/scripts/logs';
set $fileLog = '$dirLogs/$0.log';
set $fileErr = '$dirLogs/$0.err';

spool stdout on to "$fileLog";
spool stderr on to "$fileError";

This works, but I end up with filename.mxl.log, not filename.log. I guess it's not a big deal, but I'm wondering if there is a way to clean this up.

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From: email@example.com [mailto:email@example.com] On Behalf Of Kermit Tensmeyer
Sent: 25 January 2008 16:43
To: Mailing list for SAXON XSLT queries
Subject: Re: [saxon] Attribute2 Error
is it safe to assume, that a choice of sax2 implementation won't conflict with saxon? I didn't see anything in the api that implemented the Attributes2, but there could be interactions between sax processing and saxon processing, that I do not yet understand. If i were writing java code, I could provide an Attributes2Impl code. Or define a property to point to a specific implementation in the cli invocation.
with that in mind, I will use one of the other suggested solutions to supply this class
What does Saxon use for xml processing (dom, sax) with net.sf.saxon.Transform? [sax1, sax2, jdom?]
On Jan 25, 2008 5:18 AM, Michael Kay <email@example.com> wrote:
This is really a Xerces question rather than a Saxon question. I think the dependency on Attributes2 comes from Xerces, not from Saxon. I don't actually know whether Xerces 2.9.1 is supported on JDK 1.4.I downloaded 2.9.1 and took a look at it; I would have expected SAX2 to be present in the xml-apis.jar file, but it seems that contains SAX1. You may be able to make it work with SAX2 downloaded directly from SourceForge, but I can't vouch for it. Unless anyone else here knows the answer, please ask on a Xerces forum.Michael Kay
From: email@example.com [mailto:email@example.com] On Behalf Of Kermit Tensmeyer
Sent: 25 January 2008 01:59
To: saxon-help ML
Subject: [saxon] Attribute2 ErrorI'm trying to get XSL V2 and xinclude working.
[The short term project is to generate SUSE autoyast xml files using XSL. The method in current process uses sed, awk,and
multiple files concatenated with some xmllintprocessing and a lot of messy file edits and tweaks.
I've argued that XSL is a far better method of XML file generation for a while.] [it's a put up or shut up challenge...]
I've used emacs and nxml to get most of the stuff inplace properly
and tested with Oxygen running under Windows to generate mostly correct output.
and now run on Linux with
ibmkt@lxwkbc194:~/yast> java -version
java version "1.4.2"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2)
Classic VM (build 1.4.2, J2RE 1.4.2 IBM build cxz641420-20040626 (JIT
enabled: jitc))
where the OS is SLES9 on Z/OS mainframe.
upgrading the java version or the OS is not an option (otherwise the OS is
not a consideration)
I'd like to start with the same files (xml, xsl, xsd) in a linux environment
using Saxon 9b in a cli environment. Earlier today I had problems making xinclude work
properly, (it complained about the SAX processor) I think I understand the issues but it's taken time
In order to get xinclude working, I brought in Xerces 2.9.1 files and created
an /usr/lib/java/jre/lib/endorsed directory and added the files.
I'm using a shortcut shell script ~/bin/saxonj
java -cp "/home/ibmkt/saxon/saxon9.jar:$CLASSPATH" \
org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl \
org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl \
org.apache.xerces.parsers.XIncludeParserConfiguration \
net.sf.saxon.Transform "$@"
and when I execute on command line
> saxonj -xsl:tmplate.xsl -o:out1.xml -xi:on ktest.xml
I get
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/xml/sax/ext/Attributes2
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.<init>(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser.<init>(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser.<init>(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.<init>(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.<init>(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl.newSAXParser (Unknown Source)
at net.sf.saxon.Configuration.loadParser(Configuration.java:1773)
at net.sf.saxon.Configuration.getStyleParser(Configuration.java:1804)
at net.sf.saxon.PreparedStylesheet.loadStylesheetModule (PreparedStylesheet.java:235)
at net.sf.saxon.PreparedStylesheet.prepare(PreparedStylesheet.java:162)
at net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl.newTemplates(TransformerFactoryImpl.java:139)
at net.sf.saxon.Transform.doTransform(Transform.java:636)
at net.sf.saxon.Transform.main(Transform.java:65)
what other jars do I need to supply that will satisfy the Attributes2 class?
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