Comments on: Writing Excuses Episode 16: Butt In Chair, Hands On Keyboard

By: NaNoWriMo 2011, Teil 5: Erfahrungen | MARCUS JOHANUS BLOG

NaNoWriMo 2011, Teil 5: Erfahrungen | MARCUS JOHANUS BLOG — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:00:19 +0000

[...] den Stuhl, Hände auf die Tastatur.“, eine tolle Strategie gegen die Schreibblockade, die in dieser unverzichtbaren Folge von Writing Excuses vorgestellt [...]

By: NaNoWriMo (day 5) « Scott's Grimoire (my spot of ink)

NaNoWriMo (day 5) « Scott's Grimoire (my spot of ink) — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 06:50:58 +0000

[...] my writing that I’ve ever done. it has forced me to get Butt In Chair, Hands On Keyboard (BICHOK - as the Writing Excuses guys like to say. You can listen to that episode HERE). By the time [...]

By: Joe Kawano

Joe Kawano — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:54:25 +0000

Definitely enjoy these podcasts. This, like the rest was great to listen to. Suggestion: I couldn’t find “BICHOK” when I searched for it, and so I suggest you add that as a keyword to the article. “BIC HOK” is there in the text, but not as all-one-word. Thanks everyone!

By: JovasKig

JovasKig — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:03:14 +0000

Love the tips in this comment thread. Here is some of my own.

Writing Prompt: Watch a film that uses a language you don’t know. It is important you don’t know anything about it. No dubbing or subtitles. Write down what you think is happening. Now flesh it out with your own imagination.

Writing Prompt: Take a public domain work of fiction and write a “True Story” version of it. Choose a perspective not covered in the original work.

Writing Prompt: Imagine your character going through the most humiliating moment in their life. Write it down.

Public domain works can be found on this site: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Writing Prompt: Find the names of ten countries that don’t exist any more and create anagrams of them.

Writing Prompt: Look at the titles on Anthology Builder. Collect 10 of them. Break them down and create 10 new ones using the words of the titles. Scramble them up and have fun. Next write a 100 words story for each title you have created. Best avoid reading the short stories on anthology builder until after you done the exercise to keep from being front loaded.

Here is Anthology Builder http://www.anthologybuilder.com/display_sql_stories.php

By: Andreas

Andreas — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:44:23 +0000

Raethe, it seems like we both have run into the same situation more than once. If you’d like to talk about this more we can take this off this comment board. ABodensohn (at) aol-dot-com
No skin off my nose if you don’t take me up on this offer, but I always enjoy talking about writing with another writer.

By: Raethe

Raethe — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:28:48 +0000

Hmm. That’s an interesting one, Ben. I often find that when it comes to the point where I’m trying to MAKE my characters do anything – even if I go back to their backstories and give them a plausible motivation to actually do whatever it is I want them to do – but the instant I try to just MAKE one of my characters do something they don’t want to do, the whole scene after that falls flat.

I’m with Andreas; when that happens I tend to bend over backwards to try and keep that particular portion of writing, because that seems to be when I get my best writing done – when I’m “with” a certain character, so to speak. It’s not really much of a question, for me. Often where I’ll run into walls (in fact, I’m there in my novel right now) is trying to make things that need to happen happen some other way, because once I feel I’m being false to the characters I’m pretty much done for.

In other news, I concur – thanks for this podcast, it guilted me into putting the finishing touches on a novella that I’ve been working on for a while. XP

By: “Writing Excuses”: Great Podcasts on Writing • Traces of Chaos

“Writing Excuses”: Great Podcasts on Writing • Traces of Chaos — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:55:29 +0000

[...] them out, it’s worth it. Start with Episode 16, because THAT contains a very important lesson to everyone of us. geposted am 1. Juni 2008 in [...]

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:41:18 +0000

Raethe-
I have that happen all the time. In my plotting, pearsonally, I do NOT use an outline. But I usually I have Scene in my head and write it down, get another and do the same. Then all the sudden I have a plot, great. But as you said the character has suddenly come alive and just will not cooperate, Grrrr! The solution that works for me is that when a character comes to me, I write everything I know about them. make a past that will give them motivation to do what I want them to do. Part 2: is to that character and all others who will come and go is that I AM GOD, all things come from me and if they become troublesome kill them off. But only in my head.

By: stacy

stacy — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:20:48 +0000

42, that was exactly my point. Writing, for me, is a hobby because it’s not at the top of my priority list. My day job, editing, is far higher on that list. If you want to have writing be your job, you have to put it up near the top of the list.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:12:27 +0000

I’m doing it! Inspired by this week’s podcast I’ve managed to get motivated and have gotten 5,000 words written on my project over the last two nights. Thanks for the push, guys!