And Don’t Do This…

writing 1 Minute

Rule No. 1. Do not take on too many projects at once.
Rule No. 2. Do not take on too many projects at once.
Rule No. 3. Do not write during working hours, no matter how slow a day it is.
Rule No. 4. Do not open Facebook when you are supposed to be opening Google Docs.
Rule No. 5. Do not chat, instant message, Skype, Line, or email when you are supposed to be writing.
Rule No. 6. Do not Google a word when you should be looking it up in a dictionary.
Rule No. 7. Do not turn on the TV. And stay away from YouTube.
Rule No. 8. Do not read over the last chapter again. Finish the draft first.
Rule No. 9. When it is time to sleep, it is time to sleep.
Rule No. 10. You do not need one more drink before you go to bed.

Published by samurainovelist

Japanese writer struggling to write a novel in English. My first published story was the flash fiction "Chocolate Soup" in the anthology "Opus 22" by Melius Scripto Press published in 2017. (The ivory dragon on my avatar is a netsuke by the carver Rakuchu. I also carve netsuke as a hobby.)

Published

One thought on “And Don’t Do This…”

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s