What kind of a writer are you? And I don’t mean what genre do you write. I mean, what’s your pattern for writing? Are you a weekend writer, writing for a few hours each weekend? Are you more of a tortoise kind of writer. Slow and steady gets the book written, like writing an hour each day unless something major comes up. Are you a hare writer? You block off a weekend to bang out as many words as you can in forty-eight hours.
And your writing pattern can change based on the circumstances of life, if you write long enough. So let me know what kind of a writer you are and if that pattern has changed over the years.
Here are this month’s other tips on what you need before you start your novel.
I tend to be a brainstorm in the car or while folding laundry, jot down ideas, and then sit down for a typing sprint to get all the ideas down type of writer.
I have to be very disciplined about writing sudden inspiration down. I used to be able to remember plot points, but not I have to write them down as soon as I think of them.
Sometimes I speak my ideas into my phone’s audio recorder as ideas come (especially handy when driving). Maybe that will be helpful to you depending on when/where your inspiration comes.