#WritersCoffeeClub 11/19 What's something (even if fantastical!) which could improve your process?
If only I could get into the habit of jotting down notes to myself that remind me of all the wonderful ideas that keep popping up at odd times in my mind. By the time I sit down to write, many of them are lost. 😒
#WritersCoffeeClub 19 Nov: What's something (even if fantastical!) which could improve your process?
Financial stability. Freedom from mental health problems. Oh, and an agent; got another rejection today, from one I had high hopes of.
#WritersCoffeeClub 11/19 What's something (even if fantastical!) which could improve your process?
Like many others, I find that I'm sort of always working on my ability to switch into writing mode. The more I can do to smooth the transition from rest-of-life time to writing time, the easier I find things are.
And then the other thing I'm working on is switching more quickly and easily between drafting, note-taking, and conceptualizing. I want to make that less of a clunky, stepwise process.
#WritersCoffeeClub 11/19 What's something (even if fantastical!) which could improve your process?
-No work, just leisure time would certainly help.
-My Muse, physically manifested; her ability to shame or shade me during long lulls in-between writing sessions is incredibly motivating. LMAO
-Ready access to an editor in my local area, as I work in a feedbackless way. My nerves are honestly to blame, I can't figure out how to overcome this hurdle...The mental roadblock is strangely brutal to overcome.
#WritersCoffeeClub 19 Nov: What's something (even if fantastical!) which could improve your process?
A cure for ME/CFS and anxiety.
Really, I don't think the process itself is particularly bad or good, it's just how I work. The problem is there are biological/health barriers towards implementing it. And I hate that I was made to feel for years that there was something wrong with my approach as opposed to a legitimate health problem I can't do much about.
#WritersCoffeeClub 19/11: What's something (even if fantastical!) which could improve your process?
-no day job (in theory)
-desire to write things that fit the tradpub algorithm better (or at all), connecting me with an editor
-life coach goblin to shove me to my keyboard and confiscate my phone
#WritersCoffeeClub 19 Nov: What's something (even if fantastical) which could improve your process?
Me (grudgingly) : Ughh, probably self-discipline
#WritersCoffeeClub 19 Nov: What's something (even if fantastical!) which could improve your process?
Living in a world that didn't trigger my cPTSD on a daily basis. But that's pretty fantastical, so on a practical level...
Someone to market my books for me. (No, do not pitch your services. I have no money. I am happy to trade services.) I'm very happy blogging and podcasting and writing my newsletter, but someone to post to social media daily with actual posts that work? That'd be magic.
#WritersCoffeeClub 19 Nov: What's something (even if fantastical!) which could improve your process?
If I lived in the south of France and knew a whole bunch of local people there, that would certainly make writing these books a whole lot easier. The heat in summer might be a bit much for a poor viking like me, but I'm sure I could suffer it ... for the art.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 19: Process improvement (even if fantastical!)?
I can't think of anything. That's not to say that my process couldn't use some improvement, but I'm not sure what would do it.
My proGRess, OTOH... that would be immeasurably helped by figuring out what's wrong with my energy levels. But efforts there have been unfruitful.
Still, what energy I do have is currently being focused through a proCess that feels reasonably comfortable and efficient for me.
#WritersCoffeeClub Nov. 19: What's something (even if fantastical!) which could improve your process?
Honestly, just having headspace. I have a lot of things dancing a jig up there and tend to flit from current obsession to current obsession. If I'm lucky I can have a main project as well, but a lot of the time that main project is my day job. Which I appreciate, don't get me wrong. It's a good one.
#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 19. What's something (even if fantastical!) which could improve your process?
A: An imp to take care of all the little things, to prioritize, to format the ebook, to wrangle that stupid Square Space site.
Alternately, that imp could do my copywriting job, be a caregiver, clean the house, paint the walls (etc) while I do those book things… but imps are only gonna do so much.
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 19 - What's something (even if fantastical!) which could improve your process?
A writer's retreat in the mountains or at the beach.
#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 19 - What's something (even if fantastical!) which could improve your process?
Improved self-esteem so I didn't fight imposter syndrome all the time with a new project starting out.
#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 19 - What's something (even if fantastical!) which could improve your process?
A repository of German folk tales organizing them by narrative tropes.
Like I have tried to do for my translations, but for the original German texts, and using all published foll tales in the public domain.
I currently do my research by reading old folk tale collections back to front, and I will certainly continue to do so. But it would sometimes be useful to search for specific tropes.
#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 19
What's something (even if fantastical!) which could improve your process?
A massive improvement in my and my partner's health, so i have more energy and am not doing all the parenting and housework alone along with trying to do my writing.
For a less depressing and more realistic wish, a solid alternative to Write or Die would be absolutely AMAZING. I miss that thing so fucking much. Stimuwrite gets me halfway there, but I really need the other half for best effect.
#writersCoffeeClub 11/19: What's something (even if fantastical!) which could improve your process?
Focus and energy and walking habits back to when I was 40
bonus
a button to fix whatever is wrong with me sorting the last third of this book
#WritersCoffeeClub 11/19: What's something which could improve your process?
Possibly taking my ADHD meds while writing. But having written and developed my chaotic, mostly hyper focused writing process for over 30 years before my diagnosis, I hesitate. Med-induced ability to actually focus my attention, even before 9pm, is not part of my process... But maybe for my next book 🤔
#WritersCoffeeClub 11/19: What's something which could improve your process?
Our city actually communicating with the residents about things like water shut offs, construction, and road closures, so we can plan instead of being in a constant state of chaos. Sadly, this affects my writing and my ability to earn a living writing.
#writersCoffeeClub 11/19: What's something (even if fantastical!) which could improve your process?
If my 4yo would sleep past 6am, that would make life easier.
Or if the time between 5-7am was longer.
