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Find Time to Write
Kick-start your writing habit
This book of writing prompts will kick-start your writing habit and challenge you to schedule your writing for 30 days. It’s more than a set of productivity tips for writers – it gives you writing briefs to follow until your writing habit is up and running. If you want to develop your writing skills, or learn to schedule regular writing time, or find out how to establish a writing habit, or if you need few or a whole bunch of writing prompts to get you going, you’re in the right place.
Your 30 Day Writing Challenge
Here’s small steps time management in a nutshell: you can take any task, however daunting, and break it down into smaller and smaller steps until it becomes manageable. You can do small things in your everyday life to help you achieve what you want to. Sound good? This book applies the small steps approach to the writing life. If you want to write and publish a book, you need to find the time to do it. Using the 30 Day Writing Challenge, and a series of small steps, Find Time to Write shows you how.
Learn how to show up
No-one ever sits down to write a 50,000 or 100,000 word novel or stage play or screenplay or non-fiction book. All writers of long projects do this: they write and redraft 1000 words 50 times (or 100 times). Or they write 500 words 100 times (or 200 times). Could you find the time to write 1000 words sometime this week, or could you write 250 words 4 times this week? If you can, you can finish the first draft of your book or play by this time next year. You don’t need to start with an idea. You need time and space to write, and you need to show up regularly. Find Time to Write will help you to do exactly that.
This book of writing prompts will kick-start your writing habit and challenge you to schedule your writing for 30 days. It’s more than a set of productivity tips for writers – it gives you writing briefs to follow until your writing habit is up and running. If you want to develop your writing skills, or learn to schedule regular writing time, or find out how to establish a writing habit, or if you need few or a whole bunch of writing prompts to get you going, you’re in the right place.
Your 30 Day Writing Challenge
Here’s small steps time management in a nutshell: you can take any task, however daunting, and break it down into smaller and smaller steps until it becomes manageable. You can do small things in your everyday life to help you achieve what you want to. Sound good? This book applies the small steps approach to the writing life. If you want to write and publish a book, you need to find the time to do it. Using the 30 Day Writing Challenge, and a series of small steps, Find Time to Write shows you how.
Learn how to show up
No-one ever sits down to write a 50,000 or 100,000 word novel or stage play or screenplay or non-fiction book. All writers of long projects do this: they write and redraft 1000 words 50 times (or 100 times). Or they write 500 words 100 times (or 200 times). Could you find the time to write 1000 words sometime this week, or could you write 250 words 4 times this week? If you can, you can finish the first draft of your book or play by this time next year. You don’t need to start with an idea. You need time and space to write, and you need to show up regularly. Find Time to Write will help you to do exactly that.
92 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 20, 2017
About the author
Louise Tondeur
21 books15 followersLouise has been a writer and a teacher in various guises for the last twenty-five years. She lives in East Sussex and is currently working on her first crime novel.
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April 27, 2021
I wasn't able to do everything for one reason or another but I did some of them, the writing exercises. It showed me that I can write quite a bit in a short amount of time if I set my mind to it. Some of what I wrote were feelings I really needed to get out. I loved the found object prompt and that's really given me some story ideas.
September 28, 2018
Seems like some pretty good prompts! A lot of prompt books come off as really cheesy, but this has some ideas that are actually igniting a bit of a spark in me. I'll have to see if I think the same after I get a chance to fully test the system, but I like the looks of it.
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November 6, 2020
If you need to uncomplicated writing, read this.
Louise takes the overwhelming and makes it easy.
You don't need to carve out months of time and live in top of a mountain to write.
A little at a time, you can develop the habit and skills to write.
She makes an awesome cheerleader!
Louise takes the overwhelming and makes it easy.
You don't need to carve out months of time and live in top of a mountain to write.
A little at a time, you can develop the habit and skills to write.
She makes an awesome cheerleader!
August 30, 2018
Picked up this ebook as I am familiar with the author's other similar ebooks and I noticed it was free on Amazon.co.uk - there was only one correct course of action here!
It's a sequence of bite-sized exercises designed for any writer, amateur or veteran, to fit into their busy schedule. The book suggests you keep track of your energy levels and pick your writing time according to when you feel most energetic - although I do wish it had gone into more detail regarding scheduling, energy levels etc. as well as the individual exercises.
Another point is that several "days" of the schedule are dedicated to you doing something nice for yourself and taking a break from writing. I'd love to see this explored in more detail - how can I use my downtime more efficiently, what sort of activities can I choose that are still going to inspire me, recharge my batteries and get me in the writing frame of mind? (I can think of a few, but maybe they were saved for another ebook.)
Either way, it's free, and it's helpful, clear and professionally presented. Would recommend to anyone looking for writing prompts. Cover to cover, it took me about 20 minutes to read, but that's because I haven't done any of the exercises - YET! :)
It's a sequence of bite-sized exercises designed for any writer, amateur or veteran, to fit into their busy schedule. The book suggests you keep track of your energy levels and pick your writing time according to when you feel most energetic - although I do wish it had gone into more detail regarding scheduling, energy levels etc. as well as the individual exercises.
Another point is that several "days" of the schedule are dedicated to you doing something nice for yourself and taking a break from writing. I'd love to see this explored in more detail - how can I use my downtime more efficiently, what sort of activities can I choose that are still going to inspire me, recharge my batteries and get me in the writing frame of mind? (I can think of a few, but maybe they were saved for another ebook.)
Either way, it's free, and it's helpful, clear and professionally presented. Would recommend to anyone looking for writing prompts. Cover to cover, it took me about 20 minutes to read, but that's because I haven't done any of the exercises - YET! :)
December 14, 2019
This is set up as a daily task prompt for several weeks, so it’s not exactly easy to review.
Like this:
The idea is to both exercise your creative brain AND get you into the habit of both writing and looking at things differently.
Plus, if you record where you where, how much you wrote, and how you felt afterwards, you MIGHT just find that your best writing place is not at your desk, like you thought it was.
I had the vague thought that it would be easy to write the tasks on an index card and flip over to the next one, but then I realised that one of the links included in the book is to an Udemy course. And it’s free.
So if that works better for you, go for it.
https://www.smallstepsguide.co.uk/
3 stars
Like this:
DAY ONE AND TWO Freewriting. Start with a colour. Write for 5 minutes without stopping. Repeat.
DAY THREE AND FOUR Senses. Right where you are now, what can you see, hear, smell, taste, touch? Write a line about each one.
DAY FIVE Doorway. Write about the nearest doorway to you right now. Use all of the senses.
DAY SIX Object. Pick up an object near you and observe it for 5 minutes. Write about it. (Kindle Locations 71-76).
The idea is to both exercise your creative brain AND get you into the habit of both writing and looking at things differently.
Plus, if you record where you where, how much you wrote, and how you felt afterwards, you MIGHT just find that your best writing place is not at your desk, like you thought it was.
I had the vague thought that it would be easy to write the tasks on an index card and flip over to the next one, but then I realised that one of the links included in the book is to an Udemy course. And it’s free.
So if that works better for you, go for it.
https://www.smallstepsguide.co.uk/
3 stars
August 22, 2018
Small & Smart Book
Very useful guidelines for everyone who is interested in writing articles, stories and books but not organized enough to invest time for it. This book provides perfect step by step instructions to achieve your goals.
Very useful guidelines for everyone who is interested in writing articles, stories and books but not organized enough to invest time for it. This book provides perfect step by step instructions to achieve your goals.
September 4, 2018
An average book that helps to kickstart writing habit
The book is an average copy that helps you to write well. Suitable for beginners but not upto the mark.
The book is an average copy that helps you to write well. Suitable for beginners but not upto the mark.
May 17, 2019
I got it free in my kindle. It helps to create a writing habit, schedule according to your energy levels, and to achieve your goals.
March 31, 2020
Bueno para manejo de tiempo
Interrsante para quienes quieren aprender a adminsitrar su tiempo para escribir un libro. Es un buen ejercicio para principiantes. Recomendado.
Interrsante para quienes quieren aprender a adminsitrar su tiempo para escribir un libro. Es un buen ejercicio para principiantes. Recomendado.
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