What steps do you're taking to get a artistic writing challenge completed? Is your technique sheer madness?

Someday, many years ago, I used to be working in an office. The executives have been having a meeting to debate new procedures. It was a hot day and the convention room was small and crowded, so the door was open. As I passed by on my method to the filing room, I overheard my boss saying “Melissa can handle that. She’s very methodical.”

You Might Not Hear My Drummer

One of my favorite sayings has to do with marching to the beat of your individual drum. I like that saying as a result of that’s how I stroll - to my very own rhythm. If I didn’t, then I most likely would have never started my very own business or believed that I could make it as a writer. Actually, I most likely wouldn’t be a writer at all.

Some writers can sit down and pound out an article, a short story, or perhaps a novel without ever planning or outlining. Others have to comply with a strict writing process or they get lost and confused, twisted up in their very own words.

For instance, when I'm concerned in a copywriting or nonfiction project, I discover that brainstorming and outlining are essential. I would like to prepare my ideas and be sure that I cover the subject material thoroughly. But with artistic writing tasks, comparable to fiction and poetry (and even the novel I wrote for NaNoWriMo last yr), I just begin typing and let the ideas flow. Longer tasks might embody notice taking, however a majority of these challenge have a free and creative stream, so I be sure that the method I take advantage of is free and inventive too.
Listen to Your Personal Rhythm

We all start with fascinating artistic writing ideas and hope to complete with a totally riveting piece of writing.

That day I overheard my boss saying that I used to be methodical was many years ago. Since then, I’ve loosened up my methods. Oh, I can still whip up a streamlined procedure and implement it. I've to do that for my very own enterprise all the time, whether or not it includes maintaining my client contact listing or managing my quotes and invoices - having a system for that stuff is extraordinarily helpful.

But my closet not looks like it’s maintained by Martha Stewart. Positive, it’s nonetheless pretty organized, but not by coloration and season. It helps to know when a system works and when it’s all hype. The first few times I attempted to write a novel, I did so using the exact same writing course of that I used for writing essays in faculty, and it simply didn't work. It wasn’t till I totally changed the process that I used to be able to succeed and full that massive inventive writing project.

Writing processes are good. The reason our predecessors developed these processes and shared them, along with a number of other writing tips, was to help us be extra productive and produce better writing. Methods and techniques can be useful however it’s our accountability to know what works for us as individuals and as inventive (and generally crazy) writers and to know what may have us spinning our wheels all of the livelong day.
I Showed You Mine

…now you present me yours.

What’s your artistic writing course of? Do you've one? Do you ever get caught in the writing process? How do you get out?