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<blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 2444450" data-attributes="member: 11">I have developed this strange method of working on the installments of my story hour, and it has made me curious about how others do it.Sometimes, as muc has I love my story hour, writing it seems like a chore, and there is this great inertia to getting started, but once I get going I usually really get going.So what I started doing to get over the inertia was to just open a word file and since I have my computer on whenever I am home anyway, just leave the file open, and then just force myself to write a sentence of it whenever I remember it is sitting there open waiting.Just one sentence or piece of dialogue, and sometimes, if I have actually sat down at the computer I'll make myself do one more after that.Maybe it helps that my computer is in my living room, so I walk past it no matter what I am doing around the apartment.&nbsp; A sentence here, a sentence there and soon one or two is turning into a paragraph as it becomes easier to simply get some small description over with in one sitting, and then soon I am getting into it and thinling ahead and the next thing I know if I have the time I am writing a full page or two in s a sitting and then in the course of 5 to 7 days&nbsp; boom! installment.I just found it too intimidating to just make time and try to write it all out in one sitting or even two or three. . small bursts that swell into a longer writing sessions seem to work better for me.&nbsp; This is especially true for me since my installments are rarely less than 8 or 9 pages in word (and sometimes are as much as 12).So, am I weird?How do you all go about doing it?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="el-remmen, post: 2444450, member: 11"] I have developed this strange method of working on the installments of my story hour, and it has made me curious about how others do it. Sometimes, as muc has I love my story hour, writing it seems like a chore, and there is this great inertia to getting started, but once I get going I usually really get going. So what I started doing to get over the inertia was to just open a word file and since I have my computer on whenever I am home anyway, just leave the file open, and then just force myself to write a sentence of it whenever I remember it is sitting there open waiting. Just one sentence or piece of dialogue, and sometimes, if I have actually sat down at the computer I'll make myself do one more after that. Maybe it helps that my computer is in my living room, so I walk past it no matter what I am doing around the apartment. A sentence here, a sentence there and soon one or two is turning into a paragraph as it becomes easier to simply get some small description over with in one sitting, and then soon I am getting into it and thinling ahead and the next thing I know if I have the time I am writing a full page or two in s a sitting and then in the course of 5 to 7 days boom! installment. I just found it too intimidating to just make time and try to write it all out in one sitting or even two or three. . small bursts that swell into a longer writing sessions seem to work better for me. This is especially true for me since my installments are rarely less than 8 or 9 pages in word (and sometimes are as much as 12). So, am I weird? How do you all go about doing it? [/QUOTE]

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