Comments on: Write Like The Wind in Ten Easy Steps https://writersinthestormblog.com/2013/12/write-like-the-wind-in-ten-easy-steps/ A Blog On Writing Tue, 04 Feb 2025 02:58:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: Mary Tate https://writersinthestormblog.com/2013/12/write-like-the-wind-in-ten-easy-steps/#comment-44403 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 19:14:11 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=9546#comment-44403 All around great post, Vicki! 2 things stood out for me - one is self-talk. Tell yourself what you must do, then do it. You're your own boss. The other is that many people don't know what kind of work will make them happy. If you know it's writing, then do it. I'm making my get-busy-writing list & checking it twice. Time's a-wasting!

]]> By: Sharla Rae https://writersinthestormblog.com/2013/12/write-like-the-wind-in-ten-easy-steps/#comment-44400 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:01:15 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=9546#comment-44400 I so needed this right now. When someone in my family drops a ball, I pick it up. But I've discovered that's become a habit with them. To many slippery fingers, make my life difficult when it comes to writing. I'm starting to ignore all those balls rolling into my office but it's not easy! Still I"m making progress. 🙂

]]> By: Celia Lewis https://writersinthestormblog.com/2013/12/write-like-the-wind-in-ten-easy-steps/#comment-44397 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 17:59:39 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=9546#comment-44397 This is wonderful, Vicki. Focus, detail, work, and taking care of yourself - it's got it all! I love this article, and I can use your ideas immediately. I have too many demands on my time from people I love, so it has been challenging to teach them to wait for me to get back to them. Cheers from a newbie writer.

]]> By: Robyn LaRue https://writersinthestormblog.com/2013/12/write-like-the-wind-in-ten-easy-steps/#comment-44394 Thu, 05 Dec 2013 23:26:33 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=9546#comment-44394 In reply to joybelle2012.

My "office" is also my husband's den, and we knock heads sometimes, but he's learning to use my headphones as an indicator to leave me be, and very slowly learning to stop asking me to go out or do social things when I'm in "the draft" as we call it (first drafts come fast for me). It takes time and consistency and never backing down. He used to read my screen, and it took several years for him to understand how disruptive that was for me. (I also set the font to some scripty thing and 8pt, which actually helped a lot).

]]> By: belindambrock https://writersinthestormblog.com/2013/12/write-like-the-wind-in-ten-easy-steps/#comment-44391 Thu, 05 Dec 2013 22:50:02 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=9546#comment-44391 Thanks for the great advice and motivation!

]]> By: Laura Drake https://writersinthestormblog.com/2013/12/write-like-the-wind-in-ten-easy-steps/#comment-44388 Thu, 05 Dec 2013 11:42:48 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=9546#comment-44388 In reply to Orly Konig Lopez.

Hello, Candy Crush! Busted, Chickie.

]]> By: Laura Drake https://writersinthestormblog.com/2013/12/write-like-the-wind-in-ten-easy-steps/#comment-44385 Thu, 05 Dec 2013 11:42:08 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=9546#comment-44385 In reply to Vicki Lewis Thompson.

This is so true, Vicki - I do the same . . . then remember that I worked for 15 years to be able to complain about where I am. Thanks for the reminder.

]]> By: Vicki Lewis Thompson https://writersinthestormblog.com/2013/12/write-like-the-wind-in-ten-easy-steps/#comment-44382 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 23:46:07 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=9546#comment-44382 In reply to Jackie Rod.

Jackie, one of my favorite motivational writing books, The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, says at the end something to the effect of "give us what you've got." I think that's so powerful. Those of us who are writers have an obligation to get that stuff out there! Good for you, vowing to do that!

]]> By: Vicki Lewis Thompson https://writersinthestormblog.com/2013/12/write-like-the-wind-in-ten-easy-steps/#comment-44379 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 23:43:14 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=9546#comment-44379 In reply to ramblingsfromtheleft.

It sounds as if you're ready to go for it, and that's so exciting! I love watching people get the bit in their teeth. 🙂

]]> By: Vicki Lewis Thompson https://writersinthestormblog.com/2013/12/write-like-the-wind-in-ten-easy-steps/#comment-44376 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 23:41:46 +0000 http://writersinthestorm.wordpress.com/?p=9546#comment-44376 In reply to Lori Nelson Spielman.

Thank you, Lori!

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