In the dry balance, a blogger or a copywriter has only a few hours for fruitful activity. How to use them to the maximum? How to write like Hemingway and Tolstoy while working at home? Find out from this article.
The American writer and poet, the "king of the Beatniks", the author of such works as "On the Road" and "Dharma Bums", Jack Kerouac, always lit a candle before starting work, and when he finished writing, blew it out.
It may seem strange to some, but writing rituals are very important. The candle was a signal to Kerouac's brain – it's time to create.
Work out your ritual. For example, start and finish work at the same time; or before you take up the pen, listen to your favorite musical composition.
Turkish writer, Nobel Prize winner, Orhan Pamuk was so used to "going to work" that he could not work at home at all. But he found a way to outwit his brain: in the morning he got ready, had breakfast, said goodbye to his wife and left home. A few minutes later, after wandering around the neighborhood, he would come back and, without saying a word, sit down at the table and start writing.
Being able to write in pajamas while lying on the couch is a nice bonus of working from home. But he's discouraging. Be always in shape. It's silly to tie a tie to work in a home "office", but still get dressed, wash and comb your hair, as if you really came to work. After all, even Chekhov sat down to write, dressed in a formal suit.
American writer Mary Higgins Clark once admitted that she knows many authors who spend weeks writing the first lines of their work. According to her, this is a mistake.
Drop it. Tell a story. When you write 50 or 100 pages, you will immediately understand how to start correctly.
Sometimes it is difficult to get together and write the text logically from the title to the output. If you find yourself sitting in front of an "empty" monitor for half an hour, try starting from the end. Make a plan, write theses for each of its points, formulate a conclusion. Gradually, you will enter the stream and you will not notice how the title and introduction will be born.
Many famous writers set themselves the task of writing every day, and a certain number of pages or lines. So, Ernest Hemingway wrote at least 500 words daily. Stephen King's "norm of words" per day is 10 pages.
How many thousands of characters should/can you give out every day? Think about it and work out your "norm". Its daily performance will not only bring satisfaction, but also serve as a training of writing skills.
Dostoevsky wrote at night. It's easier to concentrate that way. Fyodor Mikhailovich locked himself in a room and worked in complete seclusion.
One of the pernicious properties of multitasking is that it reduces creativity. The text requires concentration. If distracted ("Oh! FaceBook post *!", "Oh, SMS'ka"), you won't write an explanatory material. Close all messengers and unnecessary windows, disconnect the phone. Yes, you will do only one thing, but an important one.
Vladimir Nabokov used the so-called "card system" in his work. While working on the novel, he wrote down all the ideas on cards, regardless of where and when they visited him. Then he collected his notes, built a composition and added the missing details. It is known that Nabokov wrote about 2,000 cards for the novel "Hell".
A blogger or copywriter should regularly take notes, write down his (or someone else's) ideas, beautiful metaphors or interesting facts, which can then be used in his texts. Moreover, thanks to modern gadgets, it's easy. Although, perhaps, someone is closer to a regular notebook.
A creative person needs a discharge from time to time. For example, the great Russian writer, a man with a special philosophical view of the world, Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy liked to tinker with the earth. The count himself plowed the field, mowed the grass, and in winter he chopped firewood. The English novelist Charlotte Bronte, to give the Muse a rest, peeled potatoes.
If the text does not go at all, no writing ritual helps, try to distract yourself with something mundane. After all, there is always enough to do at home – wash the dishes, iron the laundry. Find the most everyday activity of all everyday, without a hint of creativity. Physical labor will reboot your "computer" – fresh creative thoughts will appear in your head, and your fingers will knock on the keyboard themselves.
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