Get started with five easy techniques

Welcome to the second in the series of blog posts I’m writing during my time as the 2022 Hysteria Writer In Residence. Last month I talked about submission guidelines and why it really matters to pay attention to them when submitting to competitions and journals. For this month I promised a discussion about getting started and revising, and as I come to write this blog post the topic has really made me smile. Some of you reading this will have read one or two things I’ve written, or at least know I write, submit, get published, or place in competitions reasonably regularly. This last month though? Phew. It has been an uphill struggle. The words are willing but the spirit is weak. Or something like that. (Illness, caring responsibilities, pandemic exhaustion – I bet there’s a fancy name for this – work, family, and so on can all add up. Ask me how I know.) So. I thought I’d share five strategies that might help you get started on a new piece and then do an initial revision of that piece. Each strategy comes at generating or revising in a different way. Just Fifteen Minutes Some of you may know this technique as the Pomodoro technique – you set a timer and write for a set time. That’s it. No fancy stuff. You just sit down and promise yourself you’ll write for five minutes, or ten, or whatever. A short time is better than a longer time. You can always start the timer again. I recently treated myself to a glass sand timer that runs for fifteen minute...
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