Monday Motivation - Composing and Editing Tools

Welcome to Monday Motivation – Composing and Editing Tools

We are just a few days from 2020. New year, new decade. Boy oh boy, I am so excited I can hardly contain myself. To celebrate, on this Thursday, January 2nd at 7 pm I am hosting a free webinar on crushing your writing goals. The content is like the lite-lite version of the online course, but without the workbook and the full deep dive. If you want some quick pointers on setting your writing goals in 2020, if you want to ask some questions and get inspired, I’d love to have you join me. Check out my Instagram or Facebook page for the link to join. I’ll also add the link to the show notes.

Okay so coming off the heels of last week’s Monday Motivation, which was pretty intense, I’m going to do a series that is just super practical—aka the writing tools. These tools can be like cool software, mental models, little cheats, or just time-proven ways of doing things. I’ve been thinking about how to organize these talks, and I’m going to break up the tools into four buckets: composing and editing tools, organizational tools, concentration tools, and some ideas if you are a novelist, poet, screenwriter, or short-story writer. Now, I haven’t recorded all of these yet, so who knows how this change before it is all said and done. We’re all on this journey together.

 Talking about being on this journey together, I’d love to do a kind of podcast hive mind on this series. I only use a fraction of these tools, so comment on our Instagram and Facebook posts to share your favorite tools, and I’ll pull them all together in a post for everyone to review. And just to say it, I am not sponsored or supported by anyway with any of the companies or tools I’m going to discuss. Just trying to give my honest reviews and opinions.

So, let’s talk about composing and editing tools. The bedrock of writing. We don’t need much to write, and tools are great until they aren’t, basically when the lack of the tool becomes an excuse why you don’t write. I do this so much. I don’t have the right pencil, or paper, or chair, or whatever. It’s all bullshit. No excuses. You gotta write with what you have.

Okay so when I think of composing tools, I think of a long line. On the left side of the line are the simplest tools. On the right side of the line are the most robust. As you move from left to right, you get more power, but also more complexity and a potentially steeper learning curve. There’s a tradeoff.

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