Juliette Harper
Write. Every day. It doesn't matter what you write. There's this great site called 750words.com. Rana starts over there every day with 15 minutes of free writing just to get limbered up.
The better we get to know our characters, the more we live in their worlds. That's also important. Then, life becomes an exercise in experience gathering. It's nothing for one or the other of us to overhear a fragment of a conversation or see something on TV and say to the other, "Can we use this?"
Also, realize that not all writing is done with your hands on a keyboard. Patti writes in her head a lot and then comes into the office and talks the scene out. Respect your creative process. If you're the kind of writer who has to wander around with a bag stuffed full of notes scribbled on random paper napkins, so be it.
Just get the ideas in a form that pushes your story forward, and do it every day.
The better we get to know our characters, the more we live in their worlds. That's also important. Then, life becomes an exercise in experience gathering. It's nothing for one or the other of us to overhear a fragment of a conversation or see something on TV and say to the other, "Can we use this?"
Also, realize that not all writing is done with your hands on a keyboard. Patti writes in her head a lot and then comes into the office and talks the scene out. Respect your creative process. If you're the kind of writer who has to wander around with a bag stuffed full of notes scribbled on random paper napkins, so be it.
Just get the ideas in a form that pushes your story forward, and do it every day.
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