{"id":730,"date":"2013-06-28T09:05:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T14:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rachelhorwitz.com\/blog\/?p=730"},"modified":"2013-06-28T09:10:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T14:10:25","slug":"drafting-guest-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rachelhorwitz.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/28\/drafting-guest-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Drafting Guest Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

For today’s blog, I have a guest poster here to discuss drafting! Woo! Angi is \"angi\"<\/a>an amazing person who tweets some really great tips for other writers as well as some pretty funny stuff!\u00a0I had the pleasure of\u00a0reading her story mentioned below before it was out and trust me, you’ll love it! If you enjoy NA romance, this book is totally for you!\u00a0I am thrilled to have her stop by today. So without further adieu, here’s what she wrote for you guys:<\/p>\n

First, let me introduce myself. I\u2019m Angi Black, or you might know my alter ego Irene Rose and I just put out a book CHARCOAL AND HOT CHOCOLATE. It\u2019s New Adult and I\u2019m pretty much in love with it.<\/p>\n

\"Chocolate<\/a><\/p>\n

College life is a\u00a0 breath of fresh air for 20 year old Ellie Baylor, a painfully shy but\u00a0 beautiful art major. She has her canvas and charcoal and that’s more\u00a0 than enough. Her choice to go to school far from home and the watchful\u00a0 eye of her strict parents seems like the perfect thing for smooth\u00a0 sailing into an easy life. But when River Daniels,\u00a0 a charming artist\u00a0 with eyes the color of hot chocolate, asks her to join him in a project\u00a0 for class, Ellie may get more than just an A. She might find out how to\u00a0 live.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m already working on my next book LEARNING CURVE and it\u2019ll be out sometime in November.<\/p>\n

But today I\u2019m going to talk about getting rid of drama and excuses and how to get in those words. I\u2019m a fast writer and lots of people want to know my secret. I\u2019m sad to tell you, there isn\u2019t one. I\u2019m very lucky in that I rarely seem to be out of words, but as far as fast drafting goes, those two things aren\u2019t always the same. So in honor of JunoWriMo this month, Camp Nano next month and the ever daunting\/impressive NanoWriMo, here\u2019s some thoughts on the fast draft.<\/p>\n

So here are my basic guidelines and hopefully some of them will work for you.<\/p>\n

1. No editing! In order to fast draft, you have to put a certain amount of trust in yourself. This can be really hard for writers, I know. But go with it. Let the scene take shape and don\u2019t worry about fixing it, or if it\u2019s crap or gold. Just write and move on.<\/p>\n

2. No rereading! Allow yourself a few previous lines to see where you left off, and then get into it. If you keep going back to the first chapter, it\u2019s going to be pretty freaking awesome, but it\u2019ll be an awesome first chapter of an unfinished manuscript and that won\u2019t do you any good. Get it written. Get it done. Then you can fix it.<\/p>\n

3. Set goals! Can\u2019t do 50K in a month? Who cares! It doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re a failure. It means you\u2019re busy. If you can write 100 words a day, then make that your goal and do it. The best key to drafting \u2013 stop comparing yourself to others. I see this a lot when I lead #WriteClub on Fridays. Someone will get a crazy count and someone else gets 117 and they feel bad. Hey, that\u2019s 117 more than you had and writing is art and sometimes it takes time to put your soul on paper.<\/p>\n

4. Make your writing a priority! Let me tell you a story. A couple days ago, I really wanted some tea. It seemed a simple thing to go to the kitchen and make a pitcher of tea. But I was busy. I had work, and writing, and cleaning, and laundry and all these things. And they all took priority over something that mattered to me, something so simple. I texted my husband and said, \u201cTell me you want some tea.\u201d He said he did. I went and made tea.<\/p>\n

I found it acceptable to fit someone else\u2019s needs into my schedule but not my own. And that was over a pitcher of tea! Ridiculous!<\/p>\n

Now, think how silly it is that you don\u2019t make time for your words when that\u2019s way more important than your choice of beverage. And man, that tea is delicious.<\/p>\n

5. Just write! Stop worrying about how it\u2019s going to be when it\u2019s done. Stop worrying about if it\u2019s commercial, who will rep it, who will read it, this, that, this, that, just write it. Think the words. Transfer to paper. Ta-dah!<\/p>\n

**My fast drafting usually includes large amounts of snackage and only slightly smaller amounts of wine. Season to taste. And then add a dash more salt.<\/p>\n

I hope this helps. I know maybe those sound simple and obvious, but most times as writers, we put so much pressure on ourselves, we forget why we\u2019re doing it in the first place \u2013 we have a story to tell. So just relax, maybe make some tea, and tell your story. Before you\u2019ll have a story and then you can edit and revise and embrace those neurotic writer tendencies, but that\u2019s another post.<\/p>\n

You can find Angi at the following locations:<\/p>\n

@anginicole722<\/a><\/p>\n

@authorrosebud<\/a>
\nblog\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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blog 2<\/p>\n

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Goodreads<\/div>\n

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Amazon<\/div>\n

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Nook<\/div>\n

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Kobo<\/div>\n

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