Of course, it never hurts to be in a place where your choices for Internet Background Noise are limited.
My husband's great-grandmother hung this where she could read it every day during the summer months she spent in this quiet place.
(Here's a reposting from two years ago.)
"The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him."
Rachel Carson
This morning I read Candice Farris Ransom's post about switching off the internet and listening Here it is. What do you think? I don't think I can completely unplug. But I'll try to strike a balance.
I'm leaning toward the advice of Laurie Halse Anderson,
in her blogpost about Social Media.
Cut the amount of time you spent on social media and reading blogs about writing and getting published by 75%. Yep. If you spent 10 hours a week on that stuff, then from now on, spend 2.5 hours. Use the time that you get back for writing your novel and for reading great books. That will make your chances of getting published much stronger than any Facebook post ever will.
Of course, I'd spent an entirely productive time cruising around on Laurie Halse Anderson's blog. She's got some great advice and fantastic visuals so I'll be back. She'll be in my 25%.
It's the other internet background noise I may be able to live without.
It's a lot easier to be still and listen when the background noise isn't clutter.
This is all good advice. I think Michael Chrichton must have been speaking directly to me. It is such hard work. Thanks for a kick in the pants. Always needed!
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this. Just what I needed to hear.
ReplyDeleteYou can't hear good advice too many times, as my grandmother was fond of saying.
ReplyDeleteOf course, as a child, I didn't agree at all! But now I see what she meant.
At times, kicking each other in our collective pants is a good thing.
That's what friends and grandmothers are for, right?