Advice and Tips for writing while driving over the road
I want to let everyone know that this the first book I have completed. I don't consider myself a professional writer or claim to know everything about writing. With that in mind, I would encourage you to do as much research as you can to help you along. What I can tell you, is that writing starts with an Idea.
Take time to develop that idea and then think of where you want to go with that idea. Write down a plotline, and then think of the different points in the story that pivotal things happen. Just imagine for a second that you don't have a GPS. How would you get from some town in Florida to another town in Washington state? Think of your plotline like a roadtrip, and the stops as pivotal moments or transitions in the story. Writing it down will help you stay on course. When you write, never throw anything away. If you think something is complete trash, remember that you can always rework it. It may just be the piece that you need to make a part of your story even better.
I found the best times to write are when getting loaded or unloaded. While waiting on a load parked at the truckstop. On my days off I would make it a point to write something. I would say that 75% of what I wrote was sitting on the drivers seat with the laptop on the steering wheel. The other thing to keep in mind is that this will take time. I am not saying that someone can't write a story in 3 month's, but most of us humans need to rest and take a break once in a while. If you find yourself not being able to write or unmotivated, take a week off. Recharge those batteries and maybe even come up with some other ideas to work into your story. I'll be honest and say that at times I was just plain lazy and left writing for a month or two. Had I applied myself more I would had finished this book earlier. It took me 1year and a half to complete the book. So next you get to the point that you finish your book. A work of fiction is ussually 45,000 to 80,000 words. It's time to revise what you wrote. You have to look for incosistencies, contradictions, or things that don't fit. At that point you rewrite those parts and then read it again to to look for bad grammar and punctuation. I would say you will do this about 10 to 15 times. At least I think I read this book I wrote that many times.
I hope that this helps and good luck with your writing. Please check out my page on facebook. Hope you like the book description.Target release date for the book is Feb 1, 2014.
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