![]() Having so many things around you is a beguiling crutch, but perhaps it also contributes to that inertia you fight against whenever you sit down to write. Which ones did you use in the past week? Month? Year? Scrivener? Evernote? Google Drive? Dropbox? Spiral notebooks? Rhyming dictionary? Thesaurus? A drawerful of special pens? Declutter the other scraps into a file, for another time. When it feels like you’ve got a tug on the line, go with that one. And he’s somehow involved with the conductor, who just died… Suggestions of the stark family issues in Home drift in, and the woman now has a son. Maybe you pick up the scrap of paper about the investigation of a trainwreck, and then a woman in black leaps to the snow in the foreground. Perhaps the mutant plant adventure seemed good when zombies were in full swing, but now there’s no more plot coming. Concentrate on each idea in turn, and simply feel which one is most ready to open up. So, here’s my mantra on this one: open all those tabs of half-begun stories, or assemble all those notebook pages on your bed. They don’t easily fall into sequence like a Mary Poppins musical number, and you may be paralyzed by too much choice, or uncertainty as to which are the ‘best’ ideas. ![]() What do you mean, where do my ideas come from? Ideas and inspiration are everywhere, in the air we breathe!īut perhaps in your work schedule as a writer, you find it difficult to pursue all these ideas. Often asked where they get their ideas, from sci-fi to literary to suspense, I’d bet most writers are befuddled. ![]() It’s just about keeping that clear image and structure in mind, and letting go of whatever events, descriptions, words, and thoughts that don’t support that structure.Īnother big category for writers is their ideas. A writer is always called to be their first editor, and that requires the detachment to incise words that smother one’s voice or ideas.Īre you just starting an edit? Are you dragging your feet keeping up with your editing schedule? (Me! Me!) Here’s what I’m telling myself, which sometimes works: The obvious culprit to attack is extraneous words. Marie Kondo jokes aside, it also made me think about how I could declutter in my capacity as a Writer. It made me think about decluttering, always a popular subject in the new year, and also a subject near & dear to my heart. Recently I saw this meme on Face Book, & laughed: So let those unneeded reference books go today.Being a writer has nothing to do with one’s personal style, and there have been plenty of hoarder-style, as well as many minimalist, writers over the centuries. We ARE much less likely to binge buy and cling onto clutter. It can actually reduce our general anxiety. ![]() The little things you let go everyday really do add up.īUT decluttering just a little bit every day does more than that. You can donate them to charity if they’re not out of date.īut if you’ve got a fair number you could trade them in on Amazon or sites like Ziffit. ![]() Bibles – a thought provoking one I know but can we really cherish lots of different copies?.Open our eyes to all those unneeded, out of date or online OR where we just have more copies than we can do justice to.BUT if you’re new do hop back and read how just 10 things can help you declutter easily. If you’re following along with my quick daily declutter, read on. IF we do have a problem, the specific up-to-date information we will need IS available online. So today we’re going to let go of unused reference books. They just all add to our general anxiety. Legal guides.Īnd in fact by adding to our general clutter. Worry is in danger of taking over our minds.ĪND all those reference guides we buy to help us stop worrying are in danger of taking over our homes. ![]()
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