It's been an interesting week. One and a half snow days threw my schedule off completely.
But here are some of the writing-related things I did this week:
I wrote about 200 new words on a fiction WIP (not a ton, I know, but still)
I started an outline for a nonfiction work for hire project
I communicated with my new editor for same nonfiction project
I received a contract for a picture book manuscript (squee!)
I talked to an agent (not about representation, but it was a great convo)
So I just realized I had interaction with an editor, an agent, and a publisher--all in the last three days. Hmm. Not at all what I expected at the beginning of the week. The three interactions were all really different--but all of them were generous with their time and genuinely cool people. While I can't talk details, all three are sort of milling around in my brain competing for energy.
And distracting me from the actual work I should be doing. Writing. But in a good way.
OK, so the title of this post sort of suggests I'm going to explain how to ignore the distractions. Honestly I have no idea.
How do you tune out the distractions?
3 comments:
Wow - it sounds like you accomplished a lot even if you didn't get many words on the page! When I have too much "stuff" in my brain, I usually re-read the previous part of the story I'm working on, I often find something I need to fix and that helps me focus.
Thanks Andrea. That's a good idea and often works for me too. I actually started using outlines as a way to make progress on fiction as well as non fiction.
Thanks for stopping by!
I'm blog-hopping right now, so, obviously not the best one to give advice on ignoring distractions :-)
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