Post by account_disabled on Jan 6, 2024 4:07:07 GMT
In the autumn of 1830 Victor Hugo – as his wife Adèle Foucher wrote in the memoirs entitled Victor Hugo raconté par un témoin de sa vie publié – bought a bottle of ink and locked himself in the house to write Notre-Dame of Paris so that he could deliver it, as expected, in February 1831. For the occasion she dressed only in a large wool shawl, locking up her clothes so as not to be tempted to leave the house. How do you see this as a loophole? This is why I say that we need to find a way to stay away from the web: because, at least for me, it is the only way to be able to write in peace . Extreme methods. Sometimes they are necessary. Read what you need from the documentation The writer Riccardo Coltri involuntarily gave me this idea in an email exchange. He was reading an essay to find out about a story, rather than reading a novel.
I call it time optimization . You must read? Yes, of course, otherwise you can't write. But you also need to document yourself. Why not combine the two? It seems trivial, but so far I have added books to books, Special Data lengthening the reading and writing times. Eliminate distractions as much as possible I repeat until I get bored: when I wrote on paper, I had no distractions. Ergo: computers and the web distract me. When I'm in the countryside, I can write because I don't have connection and the smartphone connection is slower than a snail, so it's like not having it. What is a distraction? I do not know. Or, at least, I know mine, as you know yours. For me, writing in a pub would be impossible both because of the distractions and because the confidentiality that characterizes me as a person is missing. But for Joanne Rowling a pub was not a source of distraction.
Recognize what distracts you from writing and eliminate it from your writing sessions. Transforming writing into a true passion In the end, what really matters is the passion we put into what we do. If writing is really a passion of ours, then let's just write. If we like to write but can't get anything done, we don't find the habit of writing that allows us to complete our literary projects, then we need to transform writing into a sincere passion. We need to answer a series of questions: do I really want to write? Do I want to write a story? Do I want to write that story? Do I want to get to the publication? Does it make me feel good to write? Is writing part of me or could I live without it? From the nature of the answers - whether positive or negative - we understand whether writing is what we really want. If it's a passion or a month's pastime.
I call it time optimization . You must read? Yes, of course, otherwise you can't write. But you also need to document yourself. Why not combine the two? It seems trivial, but so far I have added books to books, Special Data lengthening the reading and writing times. Eliminate distractions as much as possible I repeat until I get bored: when I wrote on paper, I had no distractions. Ergo: computers and the web distract me. When I'm in the countryside, I can write because I don't have connection and the smartphone connection is slower than a snail, so it's like not having it. What is a distraction? I do not know. Or, at least, I know mine, as you know yours. For me, writing in a pub would be impossible both because of the distractions and because the confidentiality that characterizes me as a person is missing. But for Joanne Rowling a pub was not a source of distraction.
Recognize what distracts you from writing and eliminate it from your writing sessions. Transforming writing into a true passion In the end, what really matters is the passion we put into what we do. If writing is really a passion of ours, then let's just write. If we like to write but can't get anything done, we don't find the habit of writing that allows us to complete our literary projects, then we need to transform writing into a sincere passion. We need to answer a series of questions: do I really want to write? Do I want to write a story? Do I want to write that story? Do I want to get to the publication? Does it make me feel good to write? Is writing part of me or could I live without it? From the nature of the answers - whether positive or negative - we understand whether writing is what we really want. If it's a passion or a month's pastime.