{"id":5659,"date":"2016-06-14T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=5659"},"modified":"2016-06-13T21:45:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T04:45:46","slug":"force-yourself-and-dont-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/force-yourself-and-dont-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Force yourself . . . and don\u2019t stop . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Storm<\/a>\u201cForce yourself to begin putting words on the page immediately, and don\u2019t stop until the timer goes off, even if you have to write about the weather.\u201d \u2014 <\/em>Jan Ellison, inspired by Ellen Sussman<\/p>\n

I read this quote in the 12\/4\/15 Writer\u2019s Digest guest blog post, \u201c9 Practical Tricks for Writing Your First Novel,\u201d\u00a0 written by Jan Ellison.<\/p>\n

Since Ellen Sussman was scheduled to be a Writers Forum presenter and since I also believe this philosophy . . . my ears perked up. . . . \u00a0Daydreaming about how “ears perked up” would look and could it really happen? I think so, in a Fred Flintstone kind of way, when he’s . . .<\/p>\n

Oops, I’m taking the writing advice to put words on the page too literally. And the timer is ticking.<\/p>\n

Brian Klems<\/a>, host of The Writer’s Dig Blog where this post appears, gives this introduction to the article: \u00a0“Whether you\u2019re writing your first novel or are struggling with completing a second one (or more), sometimes you need some help focusing and figuring out how to reach your goal. Use these 9 tricks to help you go from first sentence all the way to completed novel.”<\/p>\n

I found \u201c9 Practical Tricks for Writing Your First Novel<\/a>\u201d\u00a0to be helpful. You might also find inspiration and\u00a0 helpful ideas in this blog post by Jan Ellison.<\/p>\n

Jan\u00a0Ellison<\/a> is the bestselling author of the debut novel,\u00a0A Small Indiscretion<\/a> (Random House 2015) which was both an Oprah Editor\u2019s Pick and a San Francisco Chronicle Book Club Pick. Jan\u2019s essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Narrative Magazine and elsewhere, and she received an O. Henry Prize for her first short story to appear in print.<\/p>\n

Ellen Sussman<\/a> is the New York Times bestselling author of four novels, A Wedding in Provence<\/em>, The Paradise Guest House<\/em>, French Lessons<\/em>, and On a Night Like This<\/em>. She is the editor of two critically acclaimed anthologies, Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave<\/em> and Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex<\/em>. She teaches through Stanford Continuing Studies and in private classes.<\/p>\n

Ellen Sussman will be the presenter at Writers Forum of Petaluma<\/a> on Thursday, June 16, 2016 where she will talk about will talk about A Writer’s Life: Process and Craft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cForce yourself to begin putting words on the page immediately, and don\u2019t stop until the timer goes off, even if you have to write about the weather.\u201d \u2014 Jan Ellison, inspired by Ellen Sussman I read this quote in the 12\/4\/15 Writer\u2019s Digest guest blog post, \u201c9 Practical Tricks for Writing Your First Novel,\u201d\u00a0 written […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[952,542,953,343,316],"class_list":["post-5659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-of-inspiration","tag-brian-klems","tag-ellen-sussman","tag-jan-eillison","tag-writers-forum","tag-writers-forum-of-petaluma"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-1th","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5659"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5670,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5659\/revisions\/5670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}