Welcome to the section of the blog where the delightful Dirty Discourse writers tell you all about their writing routines, schedules and processes – or lack thereof – in the hopes of helping you find the thing that works for you!
This time we have Ewrither!
I’m a rabbit – in and out of rabbit holes all day, every day
I do eat carrots (raw, but without any What’s up Dockery) almost every day but I don’t have time for all the rumoured sex, so I’m only partly rabbit-like.
My day starts with emerging from the depths, eating breakfast while reading the news (I’m an optimist and believe there will be lots of good news every day), then I write something on that story was thinking about last night, then do some other stuff (not writing) in the home, garden or workshop.
After a while, I’ll get struck by an idea and come to my laptop and tidy a sloppy part of another story or write a whole new chapter in a novella that I have going.
Then it’s back to my other jobs/interests around the house. Coffee and food are key, so is reading or listening to stories in my genre plus walking, swimming and occasional shopping (for food, of course).
Then I remember something I wanted to add and so I’ll dictate that into my phone so I don’t have to come in and clean all the mud off my hands and clothes from digging a garden bed. I’ll let the phone turn the dictation into text that I can fix and insert later into that short story I started to write three weeks ago.
Soon I’m in the workshop building a cupboard and I get struck by a great marketing idea (well it seems good) so I probably dictate that too. When I listen to it later, it’s not that hot, but maybe with some tweaking some other time…
When I need a break I edit my recent writing or write some more or phone a friend.
This goes on all day every day except when I sleep.
I live alone. Anyone who tried living with my level of rabbitry would have left after a couple of days or turned into a writer or some other form of artist. Some of those who escaped have gone on to be successful artists.
One of the best things about writing is reading those bits I managed to get just right…
Ewrither writes short, long, soft or strong. Hence the writhing nature of the beast. The writing and the beast are non-venomous and prone to random humor.
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