Comments on: Why I Don’t do 70 Days of Sweat (and other sprints) http://bethestory.com/2008/02/29/why-i-dont-do-70-days-of-sweat-and-other-sprints the blog about writing stories and being a better writer Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:36:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Game 3: #3 Seed The Copywriting Maven Versus #6 Seed Be the Story | Writer's Resource Center http://bethestory.com/2008/02/29/why-i-dont-do-70-days-of-sweat-and-other-sprints#comment-27013 Game 3: #3 Seed The Copywriting Maven Versus #6 Seed Be the Story | Writer's Resource Center Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:08:56 +0000 http://bethestory.com/2008/02/29/why-i-dont-do-70-days-of-sweat-and-other-sprints#comment-27013 [...] Why I Don’t do 70 Days of Sweat (and other sprints) [...] […] Why I Don’t do 70 Days of Sweat (and other sprints) […]

]]> By: Anonymous http://bethestory.com/2008/02/29/why-i-dont-do-70-days-of-sweat-and-other-sprints#comment-26914 Anonymous Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:11:33 +0000 http://bethestory.com/2008/02/29/why-i-dont-do-70-days-of-sweat-and-other-sprints#comment-26914 Hi Tim, Hear, hear to all of that. Though I guess you're being a little provocative to make your point, right? I do know some writers who've used these competitions as springboards and motivation, and once started, they kept on going. I agree, wholeheartedly, though that events like these play into the tendency we writers have to both underestimate and overestimate what writing asks of us. A little every day is the best way forward because good writing, like good coffee, needs time to percolate -- especially over a long work like a novel. At Font, we recommend that each writer discover their "personal best". The number of words that is optimal for them. That is a significant enough amount to generate that great-I-wrote-enough-today feeling while still leaving them keen to write again tomorrrow. Hemingway called it leaving some ink in the well. Thanks for a great website, best regards from Dublin, Ireland Orna Ross www.fontlitagency.com www.ornaross.com Hi Tim,
Hear, hear to all of that. Though I guess you’re being a little provocative to make your point, right? I do know some writers who’ve used these competitions as springboards and motivation, and once started, they kept on going.

I agree, wholeheartedly, though that events like these play into the tendency we writers have to both underestimate and overestimate what writing asks of us.

A little every day is the best way forward because good writing, like good coffee, needs time to percolate — especially over a long work like a novel. At Font, we recommend that each writer discover their “personal best”. The number of words that is optimal for them. That is a significant enough amount to generate that great-I-wrote-enough-today feeling while still leaving them keen to write again tomorrrow.

Hemingway called it leaving some ink in the well.

Thanks for a great website,

best regards from Dublin, Ireland
Orna Ross
www.fontlitagency.com
www.ornaross.com

]]> By: Carnival of Storytelling #9 » be the story http://bethestory.com/2008/02/29/why-i-dont-do-70-days-of-sweat-and-other-sprints#comment-26903 Carnival of Storytelling #9 » be the story Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:11:43 +0000 http://bethestory.com/2008/02/29/why-i-dont-do-70-days-of-sweat-and-other-sprints#comment-26903 [...] Okay, actually I do. Here’s a post from yours truly, which expresses the same technique in yet another variation: “Why I Don’t do 70 Days of Sweat (and other sprints).” [...] […] Okay, actually I do. Here’s a post from yours truly, which expresses the same technique in yet another variation: “Why I Don’t do 70 Days of Sweat (and other sprints).” […]

]]>