Let me start this by telling you that I have never written solo in my entire adult life. I stand in awe of everyone who can do this all alone with their brains. I've been married for 34 years this September, and she's been my writing partner for 35. She's the plotter who keeps me from rabbit-holing with wild abandon, and my strong suit is dressing up the words she hands me and taking it all dancing.
Yes, I literally write what I'm told to. I just make it look good.
My daily routine is pretty normal. I'm autistic, so I need patterns to make sense of the world around me and how I interact with it. So right off the bat it's caffeine. While I'm starting the first social media sweep of the day and waiting for the caffeine to kick in (one huge cup of coffee and 2 - 3 200mg pills), I'm listening to today's project's playlist and getting my brain aligned to making pages.
Then snacks - snacks are a crucial part of the process - and I literally trance out. I type super fast but write very slowly, so when I'm tranced out and really going it sounds like someone's taking the desk apart with a jackhammer. On caffeine.
I can usually get a chapter written a day. I'm also notorious for short chapters. I'll admit to being a lazy writer so I wait until I'm happy with a sentence before I type it. And for some reason, I'm obsessed with having the right journals or composition books to start a project. Obsessed. Only, I haven't kept extensive notes outside of OneNote in 20 years? I gotta be an author, because on anyone else this would look certifiable.
Yes, I literally write what I'm told to. I just make it look good.
My daily routine is pretty normal. I'm autistic, so I need patterns to make sense of the world around me and how I interact with it. So right off the bat it's caffeine. While I'm starting the first social media sweep of the day and waiting for the caffeine to kick in (one huge cup of coffee and 2 - 3 200mg pills), I'm listening to today's project's playlist and getting my brain aligned to making pages.
Then snacks - snacks are a crucial part of the process - and I literally trance out. I type super fast but write very slowly, so when I'm tranced out and really going it sounds like someone's taking the desk apart with a jackhammer. On caffeine.
I can usually get a chapter written a day. I'm also notorious for short chapters. I'll admit to being a lazy writer so I wait until I'm happy with a sentence before I type it. And for some reason, I'm obsessed with having the right journals or composition books to start a project. Obsessed. Only, I haven't kept extensive notes outside of OneNote in 20 years? I gotta be an author, because on anyone else this would look certifiable.