Day: August 5, 2009

No Method? No Problem!No Method? No Problem!

[Note: The title of this post has been inspired from one writing book, No Plot? No Problem! I haven’t read it though.]

Let’s say you’re writing a first draft of a novel. The dreaded first draft. And of course you are writing it very slowly — unless you are an exceptional writer. Then you read it again… and scream “There’s no method in it! No organizing at all! What have I been doing? This isn’t worthy of my time.” And then you close the book snap shut and don’t work on it anymore. Sad.

Many great ‘novel’ ideas have never made it into paper because of this.
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