A good writer can learn a small lesson from the amateur golfer. You know when the golf game gets most tedious and everyone is on the green? These golfers wait for their turn to putt that damn ball into the hole. It may even seem that they are losing momentum in that few seconds of anticipation whilst the guy before makes that putt. Waiting in turn. Sucks.
But the lesson here isn't about waiting. It's about picking up from the game. Golfers use that fake coin, or whatever its called to mark the green where their ball landed, and then take off from there.
Good writers know when and how to take off from the previous day's work. It's like they know how to pick up momentum and get that ink rolling out of that pen in the shortest time possible.
One effective way is to find that "golfer's coin" and know where to drop it. You could end the day with some notes on what to do tomorrow, or finish writing that chapter and use the next five minutes to start the next one. These landmarks will surely help you warm up your writer's engine much faster, and you'll surely get more done.
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And that good mood you've had all morning which you carefully want to transplant to your serene locus suddenly gets lost in a fit of disappointment of waiters not taking orders as you wait for 5 minutes in the counter.
Posted by: 花蓮民宿 | June 11, 2009 2:02 AM | Permalink to Comment