I have to finish the rough draft of The Lord’s Tale (part two) before I’ll feel comfortable formatting part one and putting it up for sale. In order to do that, I have to have focus. In order to focus, I’ve decided to try the ROW80.
So, here’s my habit that I’m going to be practicing:
Writing for four hours every day.
It’s what I should be doing anyway. And I think I can (most of the time) fit it in. It’s just a matter of breaking it down into smaller chunks. With a half hour here and a half hour there, I should be able to do this. I mean, I used to do this fairly often and felt bad if I didn’t. We’ll see if I can do that this time. I should be able to finish the rest of the rough draft if I keep that pace. We’ll see. If not, I’ll re-evaluate and drop down the time.
Wish me luck!
Update: Ugh. Forgot to add that this is part of a blog hop. Here’s the others blogs involved. I recommend checking them out, especially 100 First Draft’s post on flow. Just click on the link below (don’t worry about entering your own link) for the list.
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Amy Keeley 
I think the idea of breaking the longer session into smaller chunks is a good idea. A very good idea, in fact. Another method I use is to come up with a numeric goal — like, I will try very hard to be at some semi-significant goal in X amount of time. I like numbers that are palindromes like, 1221 or 3443 or that are in order, like 1234, 4567, etc.
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Wow. I’d never thought of using a palindrome for a numeric goal before. Nice!
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Four hours a day would make me SO productive! I’m still wrestling with the balance of writing with other commitments.
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Re: balance, yup. Same here. 😦 The only way I think I can do this is if I break it down into small chunks. There’s no way I’d be able to do a straight four hour session.
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I’m the opposite. I work much better in large chunks.
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