Comments on: Director’s Corner: Staying Motivated and Productive https://www.odysseyworkshop.org/directors-corner-staying-motivated-and-productive/ For writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:15:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Ronya F. McCool https://www.odysseyworkshop.org/directors-corner-staying-motivated-and-productive/#comment-4249 Wed, 12 Mar 2014 03:30:08 +0000 http://odysseyworkshop.wordpress.com/?p=1198#comment-4249 I love that calendar idea. Organization sounds so appealing! Yet, after years of forcing myself to write on a schedule, this year I’m trying to be more free-form. (This is kind of about methodology since I’ve never really liked outlining, which kills my motivation to write the story… once I know how a story ends, there’s no reason for me to go on writing it!) I’ve tried not to plan my writing time. I don’t even aim for a certain number of words or pages each day. This was hard to get used to at first. But I write at least three to four days out of the week, and since January I have written twelve chapters.

For Christmas I received a tablet, so I downloaded Evernote, a notetaking program, which lets me write on the train, the bus, on long car rides, and on break at work. Being able to write on the go is exciting. Evernote syncs with my home computer, so I can come home and work on what I wrote on the train, and I find myself looking forward to the challenge of refining or developing notes I made during the workday. So far this has kept me writing this year.

]]> By: Christine https://www.odysseyworkshop.org/directors-corner-staying-motivated-and-productive/#comment-4248 Mon, 10 Mar 2014 15:30:55 +0000 http://odysseyworkshop.wordpress.com/?p=1198#comment-4248 I keep a tabbed, notebook-sized calendar that’s just for my writing. On the weekly pages, I pencil in my “plan” for each day’s time, and on the month tabs I list what I’ve actually accomplished. It’s sort of like a Seinfeld Chain, but better, since I can see what I’ve done at a glance. And I have weekly check-ins with my roommate from Odyssey, so that keeps me motivated as well. Even on weekends, when I have little time to write, I try to open up my story and jot a note or two, just to keep it swirling around in my head.

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