I made it back to Portland in time for last month’s meeting of Rose City Romance Writers. This great group of writers support each other in every level of their writing careers. The meetings are informative and inspiring.  I always can’t wait to get back to the keyboard when I leave the meetings.

After a great presentation on promotion (one of my favorite subjects) by a couple of the rising stars of the group and celebrating some great new contracts, a bunch of us went out to lunch. I finally got to catch up with a few friends who I haven’t seen in several months.

One friend has recently started writing again after several months of dealing with life’s obstacles. She bemoaned the fact that her writing wasn’t flowing as smoothly as it had in the past. The words weren’t coming easily, and her writing didn’t evoke emotions of the reader as it had in the past. She asked me how to improve her writing skills.

You’ve probably had this problem at one time or another. When you sit down to write, your fingers don’t fly over the keys or your words would be better gracing the bottom of the bird cage instead of shining in your next novel.

Writing is a skill that rewards momentum. It’s a skill that benefits 40 mg prozac from practice. Writing begets more writing. The more you write, the better you write.

Deadlines also help get the words flowing and build up momemtum. If you don’t have an editor or agent breathing down your neck, you might benefit from contests and challenges.

Contests provide a deadline and also get you some feedback on your work. You want to make sure that your writing is polished before you submit to a contest.

Challenges provide a deadline and are a great way to get the words flowing. I’m a big fan of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). It’s a great way to get a rough draft completed by sending your inner editor on vacation and getting the words down on paper (or the computer screen).

Recently a friend ask if she should try to do NaNoWriMo, since she’s recently gone back to school.  I asked her if she really wanted to write a novel. She said she did. Then I asked if she thought she could devote a couple of hours a day to the effort. It takes about that long to write the 1667 words a day to reach buy viagra online no prescription your NaNo goals. She thought she could do that.

I asked her what she had to lose.  Even if she doesn’t complete her 50,000 words, she will still have more written at the end of November than she did at the beginning.

Article writing is something that fiction authors should do to build  their readership and platform. Writing articles also provides a change from fiction and can spur your creativity when you return to your book.

Ezine Articles is the leading online article directory. If you aren’t submitting articles there, you should start. They are currently running a challenge of writing 100 articles is 100 days. It ends in the middle of November. There’s some neat loot for finishing.

If you start now, you can catch up. Even if you don’t make it to 100, you’ll still have lots more articles than you do today. You’ll get into the flow of writing. This is a great warm-up for NaNoWriMo.

What do you do to keep your writing flowing and maintain your momentum? Leave a comment below and share your tips.

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