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By Marige O'Brien, Copyright© 2006
Writers have long been considered eccentric on one level or another. Even in today's more isolated society, the concept of someone choosing to spend time alone is suspect. But to a writer is to be alone. As for the eccentricities, those are more a matter of the create mind finding creative solutions. Since writing is thier biggest challenge, it follows that a writer's solutions may be the most eccentric. Even mad.
But there is a method to the madness; a reason behind the bizarre behavior and it's almost exclusively the same one: to write successfully.
For instance, Shari North, a young mother and aspiring writer, began waking up two hours early so she had the time to write before her children needed her attention. Many considered her "a little off" to do this. "By the time my children started school," she pointed out, "I had written three novels." Was it mad? Not at all. Simply a logical solution to her problem.
She also found that, because her mind was clearer in the morning before other issues cluttered up her thinking, she was much more productive and continued waking early to work long after her children started school.
Todd Young, an freelance article writer, often writes his initial draft in pencil on legal pads. Madness, perhaps. But, when asked he explained, "to quote Stephen King, it was to avoid 'diarrhea of the word processor.'" He said, "I found I choose my words much more carefully when I'm writing by hand. It's inevitable." Plus, a way to get laziness to work for you.
Alice Whinnacker added, "When I started my first novel, I found even the task of outlining it overwhelming. Yet I floundered without it. Then, one day, I wrote the outline in the form of a screenplay." She went on to explain, "by sticking to the simple, 'action-dialogue-action-dialogue' format, I was finished with the first draft in less than six weeks."
Each of these examples may appear unusual, but for the authors the important point is these methods work for them. And, just as important, a writer who is still looking for an answer to their own challenges, can learn from this.
To begin, look at whatever it is that impedes the process. Is it distractions?, Time limitations?, Inhibitions? Confidence? Each one can be remedied with enough motivation. Like so many situations, half the problem can be DEFINING the problem.
For example, a runner friend once complained that, despite loving to run in the morning, she rarely got out regularly because it was such a chore. A few months later, she was beaming and explained that she'd discovered if she wore clean exercise clothes to bed, in the morning all she had to do was throw on her running shoes. Because of it, she almost never missed a day. She'd found her solution, though it had never occurred to her before because it was only indirectly related to the problem.
So think outside the obvious, look for creative solutions and have the courage to follow through on them. Finding a method that works -- no matter how seemingly mad it may appear to others -- is what counts.--mo
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Marige O'Brien (Tracker Mo) actively works as a writer,
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