Mastodawn

Jul 6, 2023

Can I get some advice from the #WritingCommunity?

I’ve been putting off writing more of my book for a while now, but have recently become more motivated to write it. I got on Atticus and wrote a few sentences today, but then my cat distracted me and I stopped.

How often do you work on your writing? Sentences a day, paragraph a day, section/chapters? Or a few times per week? What keeps you writing?

It’s a non-fiction book. If that makes a difference.

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cyborg

@ashleyspencer @writing I got writing advice at university.
Most valuable lesson: Track the hours not the letters.

So You can get a habit of spending one hour per day at your desk - "writing"
It could be busily typing - note taking - musing - sorting chapters - anything that is connected to the writing process.

Tracking progress in numbers is good for conversation and when you already have a deadline with a publisher