Welcome To The GET OFF YOUR ASS AND WRITE Club

For wannabe writers afflicted with chronic procrastination and lack of motivation.

Monday, May 15, 2006

Thank you all...

for your response and WELCOME everyone!!! Now that you are part of the club, in order to be considered cool, you must actually POST SOMETHING!!! Because after all it is the "Get Off Your Ass and Write Club" not the "Lurking on Just Another Blog Club".

So as self-appointed president of this diddy, to make it easier I'll number the exercises as I post them. Then, just title your contribution "Exercise # from (insert name here)." Or whatever. I'm not much of a dictator, so do whatever you want, just WRITE!

For reference:

Exercise 1: Pick a 'scenario question' and give it 20 answers. No less, but more if you are not exhausted.
Exercise 2: Write a scene from you life in third person, free-write it with as little editing as possible and in 15 minutes. (Not less but a little more if you are on a roll.)

Christa's lesson of the day:

I once read somewhere that any task, whether you love it or hate it, has a 'roller coaster' effect. You start uphill, hating every moment. Then you reach a crest where it becomes bearable. Then you coast. That's why, whether you are writing, or (in my case) calling clients or doing dishes or laundry, it's so easy to put it off. You dread that uphill climb, rarely realizing that there is a downhill slide to it. So, in the words of the much beloved by my iPod Goo Goo Dolls... "just slide...."

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