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Force your muse to work! It's easy.
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Title: Force your muse to work! It’s easy.
by Jeff Heisler
I find I don”t need a prompt when I sit down as much as I need a structured writing regimen.
Why?
I think the creative mind hates structure. Even so, it scrambles to find solutions to problems it faces. If I tell myself that I”m going to write scene X at 8:00 Monday morning, my creative brain panics and hurries to pull something together to meet this challange.
By the time I sit down to write it’’s really just about dictation.
This only works if you force yourself to write at the time you said you would. You may write junk the first couple of days, but that’’s ok. Your brain is learning the consequences of not preparing. It will be ready next time.
Other tips to help this work:
1) Quit writing while you still know what’s next.
2) Once you have a set time and word count- don’t change it- ever!
3) If you plot on paper you”re way ahead. All you need to do is review that paper once or twice a day outside your usual writing time. Just let it sink in and your brain will do the rest.
Creativity is a human trait for a reason. It is intended to help us find solutions for the challanges we face. If you give your brain a challange and stick to it, creativity will come smoother and easier than you ever thought possible.
-Jeff Heisler
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Jeff Heisler is a freelance writer and editor of Write Away.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jeff Heisler is a freelance writer and editor of Write Away.
Read more of Jeff’s writing articles at http://www.heislerink.com/writeaway.asp.
You may also write to Jeff at jheisler@heislerink.com
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The Costa Brava Insight
November 6, 2008, 6:38 am
Starting at Blanes to the south and ending at Cadaques in the North, the Costa Brava offers purchasers natural beauty, proximity to the great city of Barcelona, historic medieval villages, world-famous restaurants like “El Bulli” at Roses, innumberable excellent sporting opportunities including world famous golf courses and ski-ing in the Pyrenees.
Girona/Costa Brava airport now has four flights a day from London Stansted. There are innumerable fights from almost everywhere in the UK to Barcelona, and local train services are excellent, as is the road network. English is widely spoken, but it is a big asset if you speak a little Spanish. No-one expects you to speak the local language – Catalan.
Although cooler in winter than the Costa del Sol further south, it is also cooler in summer with daytime temperatures around 30c. Lunch on the terrace is a year round option except perhaps in December and January. The atmosphere is also very different, more sophisticated. Incomers are of many nationalities, usually retired or soon-to-retire professionals. Generally they are well travelled, fairly well-off, and sociable, but there are no foreign “ghettos” as occurs further south, so no English restaurants, pubs and bars. Eating out locally is however an inexpensive, and therefore frequent, pleasure.
This is not a travel guide. Our aim in telling you about the main towns and resorts of the Costa Brava, is to try to give you a feel for what would be the right area for you. When making a buying decision, do make sure that you are clear about what you want. Some parts of the Costa Brava die out of season. That may not matter if you don’t plan on being here out of season, but can be soul-destroying otherwise.
You can find all information complementing this article at Costa Brava Homes (www.costa-brava-homes.com).
The original article is at http://www.costa-brava-homes.com/index/eng/costabrava.html.
Is highly recomended that you visit http://www.costa-brava-homes.com/index/eng/mapa.html, a page containing a map of the most importants towns and resorts in the Costa Brava.
© Costa Brava Homes (www.costa-brava-homes.com) & Christopher B. Longmore 2004
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