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difrancis put this meme on her blog.How do you do it? By this I mean a bit about your process. Do you work off of a "pages per day" kind of deal--with a bare minimum of what you need to do for the day to be accomplished? A word count? Plot?
part two of the question formatting -- what does yours look like? When you're working on a work-in-progress. Times new roman? double space? single?
1) There are two options. Option A: I pick something from the stack of ongoing projects and work on it, taking reasonable breaks. I may have a specific project planned for a specific day, but usually not a word count or page count. I try to finish things before the deadline becomes an oppressive burden. Option B: A story leaps on my unsuspecting consciousness like a couger pouncing on a mountain goat. I resurface into this world when my partner knocks on the door and asks where supper is.
2) I write in MS Word using Arial 12 pt type, double spaced, double justified, because that is what I can read. Small type, serif type, and ragged margins are hard on my eyes. I try to be careful about this stuff because I spend many hours a day staring at this screen.
June 9 2008, 14:55:29 UTC 13 years ago
When active, usually at night until about 12.30 or 1.00am
2. MS Word, or whatever's available. Garamond font, 13 point, 1.5 line spacing, always always always. Otherwise my brain doesn't think I'm in it for serious.