幸运飞行艇官方开奖记录查询 Comments on: Are You Unwittingly Sabotaging Yourself by Talking About Your Writing?

幸运飞行艇官方开奖记录查询 By: Tracy Campbell

Tracy Campbell — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 23:48:00 +0000

Ali, great post. It’s like walking a tightrope, knowing what and who to share our writing goals with. 🙂

幸运飞行艇官方开奖记录查询 By: Tom Southern

Tom Southern — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:29:00 +0000

In reply to Ali Luke. Ha-Ha! I actually created a playlist!

幸运飞行艇官方开奖记录查询 By: Ali Luke

Ali Luke — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:37:00 +0000

In reply to Jonathan Wilson.

I’m definitely more coherent on the page! I always worry people who meet me in real life must think “how odd, she didn’t sound like a gibbering idiot on her blog…” 😉

幸运飞行艇官方开奖记录查询 By: Ali Luke

Ali Luke — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:37:00 +0000

In reply to Tom Southern.

Tom, theme tunes sound a great idea. (Someday, I want to put together a playlist for my novel…)

I can never remember the science bits either! But I can definitely recognise the truth of this. 🙂

幸运飞行艇官方开奖记录查询 By: Ali Luke

Ali Luke — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:35:00 +0000

In reply to Anne Peterson. The encouragement is key -- but as Joel mentions (below), however encouraging people are, there's always the danger that talking about your writing will scratch that writing itch and make you less inclined to actually put words on paper!

幸运飞行艇官方开奖记录查询 By: Jonathan Wilson

Jonathan Wilson — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 19:59:00 +0000

One of the reasons writing is so appealing for me is because, unlike conversation, it can be edited before being expressed. In conversation I find I leave stuff out. Going through drafts in writing is helpful for me to fully consider my point, make it clear, and make it complete.

幸运飞行艇官方开奖记录查询 By: Tom Southern

Tom Southern — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 17:35:00 +0000

This is something I only realised recently. I’d heard the theory before, namely around the subject of setting goals: If you talk about your goals to others, far from making you feel you should complete them, you give yourself (your brain) a message that it’s already happened. So, your brain doesn’t act to make you do anything to complete your goals. There then came a science bit which I don’t remember 🙂 .

Recently, I realised how true this was of writing. Each plot that I’ve told friends about down the years has never made it passed an opening line.

I’m trying a new approach: keeping the story to myself and keeping the spark alive by doing things like creating theme tunes for my characters. For a psychopath character I’ve got brewing, I discovered: “Wild is the wind” by Bowie. Perfect theme tune. And the lyrics helps mould the character too.

幸运飞行艇官方开奖记录查询 By: Anne Peterson

Anne Peterson — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 13:41:00 +0000

I think it really depends on who you’re talking to about your writing. If you have a group of writers who will be encouraging you, it will benefit you to talk about your writing plans. If you talk to those you know will be discouraging, you are setting yourself up for a negative ride. But then again, maybe you know that and don’t want to take that ride.

I still find that the biggest voice is the one in my own head.

幸运飞行艇官方开奖记录查询 By: Joel D Canfield

Joel D Canfield — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 13:31:00 +0000

In reply to Ali Luke.

It’s been a couple years since I read the studies so I don’t remember whether Gollwitzer specifically addresses that aspect.

But I know from experience that picturing myself *already done* isn’t as motivating as picturing myself *enjoying the process.*

幸运飞行艇官方开奖记录查询 By: Dan Erickson

Dan Erickson — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 13:26:00 +0000

I do share a bit about my writing, but am mostly pretty quiet about it. Sometimes I share major plot ideas for future books, but not the current project.