Hey book club, movie club, writing club...why not. I have really wanted to start writing just scared that I'm not good enough. I'll have to work up my nerve. How would it work?
Kat, that is so funny that you asked me about writing yesterday! I had just started reading a book about writing called "Write is a verb" and it's subtitled "Sit down. Start Wrting. No Excuses." and so of course I was planning on writing b/c this book is motivating. It's by Bill O'Hanlon and it's like DB process for writing. He talks about doing one thing different, baby steps, etc. It's by Bill O'Hanlon, I'm only on page 50 but it's really good so far. So far he mentioned you should just try to schedule a time each day even 5 or 10 minutes and write, although he said you can write one page in that length of time and I don't know if I could do that fast, esp. in the beginning! But I guess with practice you do better. In grad school when I was writing every day, I did speed up and my writing improved too. Of course, the author's written 20 books so he can do it!
I guess we could do it by time or by page (like 1 or 2 pages a day) or 5, 10, 15 minutes or something like that??? Whatever is best for you and Lodo will be fine with me. If he's doing his Master's we probably shouldn't be too ambitious b/c I know that takes a good amount of time up! I think it's like I used to do when I was going to a gym, if I didn't feel like going I'd say I'll just go for 10 minutes and then 99% of the time after the 10 minutes I'd keep going, so you wind up doing more than that (is the theory anyway).
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Also, Lodo has the "Waitress" in his movie list. I think he would like "Wedding Date". Do you want to put that in yours? I can have 3 movies out at a time, how many can you have?
What's Waitress about? That might be a movie I've been wanting to see for a year; I'm not sure. Also, I've got Wedding Date 2nd in my queue behind National Treasure which my S14 wants (half of the movies have to go to the kids!) I do have 3 though also. I haven't returned Keeping Mum yet--I will do that today! Karen
I had just started reading a book about writing called "Write is a verb" and it's subtitled "Sit down. Start Wrting. No Excuses." and so of course I was planning on writing b/c this book is motivating. It's by Bill O'Hanlon and it's like DB process for writing. He talks about doing one thing different, baby steps, etc. It's by Bill O'Hanlon, I'm only on page 50 but it's really good so far. So far he mentioned you should just try to schedule a time each day even 5 or 10 minutes and write, although he said you can write one page in that length of time and I don't know if I could do that fast, esp. in the beginning! But I guess with practice you do better. In grad school when I was writing every day, I did speed up and my writing improved too. Of course, the author's written 20 books so he can do it! 