Clarify your universal theme and driving desire (my post on that will be up next week), clarify your ‘point of view’ at the beginning and end of the book. Re-write your synopsis and pin it up for when you’re working on the book so you don’t lose that sense of clarity on the shape of the story. Jot things like when each character is introduced or referenced, clarify where each ‘act’ of the story sits. Make yourself a visual ‘map’, using post-its for each chapter. Use the last version you worked on, and write yourself a plan so you don’t feel completely overwhelmed and confused (I know that feeling!). I find momentum is so important for something as sysiphean as a manuscript draft, and when you’re looking at revising, you need to give yourself a good few days to just lay the whole manuscript out on the floor and write your own ‘manuscript appraisal’, if you will. Hey Yolande, thanks so much for the great question. Keep writing, for two pages, and don’t look up from the page until you’ve finished. The powers you have to create from nothing (AND make a comeback) should terrify you! Write about your greatest comeback – even if it hasn’t happened yet. Writing has a sort of shamanic power to it – from thought to form on the written page, we can bring things into being. What will you see, where will you be, how will it feel? If you haven’t yet bounced back from whatever it is that you consider a loss or a failure, what would be your ideal comeback? Picture it, envision all the little details about it. How did you bounce back? Did you have to lick your wounds before you tried? Write about it. Was it a creative project? A relationship? A health issue? A career crisis? A financial issue? Write about what didn’t come off, and what you learned from the experience. When have you felt like you’ve hit rock bottom – through rejection or failure or some other idea or business that hasn’t come off – and journal about it. So, today, I want you to consider your own ‘face down in the ring’ moments. ![]() There were many times I was face down in the ring, so-to-speak, working at a banal day-job, wondering how to make my creativity work – or even if I should bother to continue trying. While I’ve had work published somewhere big, you don’t see all the articles and books I pitched (and wrote!) which were never accepted, which weren’t even rejected – but just met with silence. When you’re pain-free, it’s difficult to even recall such pain.īut that’s how it is with success, too. I pulled a nerve in my lower back last year, and it was exquisitely painful even to breathe. You just think “this is the way life is, now” and can’t even fathom being pain-free. You know when you have a migraine, or are in excruciating physical pain, you can’t see or focus on anything else? I’ve been thinking about comebacks, how the people I most admire are those who stuck at something even when they failed umpteen times before it came off. It’s a gift to the world and every being in it. “Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. ![]() Read on for two prompts from my 30 day journalling course… Daily prompt : In which we make a comeback I journal to figure out what I think and to slow down in a super-fast world. I’ve used my journals to write both my published memoirs, and even before that, I journalled my way to my first published essays and pieces. And the material you produce for your journals can actually fuel a published memoir. Journalling is a wonderful way to both reflect on what you think and process the day’s experiences. I’ve kept a handwritten journal since I was 14 and an English teacher sent us home with the exercise to fill two pages. It’s a little taster of my 30 day journalling course, with story prompts and writing reflection exercises to get you writing every single day and closer to your dream of writing a book-length memoir. It is easy to backup everything just by copying the folder to a PC.If you’ve ever wondered how and why you should keep a paper diary, this post is for you. Because Memoires stores data on SD card in folder /sdcard/.memoires, the amount of records is only limited by the SD card size.Encryption of text, images and audio recordings.Fetch text and images from other applications which support "send to" action for easy quoting, for example from RSS reader, Internet browser, Photo Album etc.Corresponding client application is required to be installed. Sharing with the other application (mail, messaging, buzz, twitter etc).Export of text and images to RTF or Google document.Synchronization with users' Google account (Drive, Spreadsheet, Picasa).User fonts from SD card (ttf or otf fonts should be placed into /sdcard/fonts folder).Timeline, Calendar, Map and Album views. ![]()
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