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13 things from Jerry Jenkins

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  1. Establish a writing space.
  2. Writing tools
  3. Break a project in small pieces.
  4. Settle on your big idea.
  5. Contruct outline
  6. Firm deadlines
  7. Conduct your research
  8. Write a compelling, reader-first, opener.
  9. Fill your story with content and tension
  10. Turn off internal editor
  11. Don’t quit during the marathon of the middle
  12. Write a resounding ending
  13. Become a ferocious (aggressive) self-edidor

Invest in setting up a bunch of things and promising…

  1. Establish a writing space.
  2. Writing tools
    1. Laptop
    2. pencil/pen
    3. Journal
    4. Drawing
    5. What else do you need
  3. Break a project in small pieces.
    1. …
  4. Settle on your big idea.
    1. Big Idea
      1. If it stays with you
  5. Contruct outline
    1. Fiction vs nonfiction
    2. Marathon of the middle - … thrive it….----middle have enough…..big setups and payoffs in middle
      1. Looks impossible until they do it
    3. Same structure
    4. Outline serves you
      1. Change the outline
  6. Firm deadlines
    1. Deadline sacred
    2. Schedule and deadline
    3. Make it in my day,
    4. Schedule in days….
  7. Conduct your research
    1. Detail of history, and
  8. Write a compelling, reader-first, opener.
    1. Compelling
    2. Styles
      1. Surprisinging
      2. Dramatic Statement
      3. Philosophical
      4. Poetic

Reader-first: they are the most important right now. Enjoy.

  1. Fill your story with content and tension
    1. People on the page, if they agree with each other too much
    2. What was that about
    3. What’s the underline tension
    4. Every page
    5. Why would the author put that in their
    6. Promising, and delivering
    7. Set up and paying off
    8. Enough tension? Conflict?
    9. Setting up, that’s tension
  2. Turn off internal editor
  3. Don’t quit during the marathon of the middle
    1. How to fill, but don’t pad
    2. Thrive
    3. Alternating
    4. Payoffs
  4. Write a resounding ending
    1. The most emotional
  5. Become a ferocious (aggressive) self-edidor
    1. Polish until it sings