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"I loved this book! So helpful!" -- Courtney Milan, New York Times Best Selling author of The Governess Affair"Have you ever wanted to double your daily word counts? Do you feel like you're crawling through your story, struggling for each paragraph? Would you like to get more words every day without increasing the time you spend writing or sacrificing quality? It's not impossible, it's not even that hard. This is the story of how, with a few simple changes, I boosted my daily writing from 2000 words to over 10k a day, and how you can, too."Expanding on her highly successful process for doubling daily word counts, this book--a combination of reworked blog posts and new material--offers practical writing advice for anyone who's ever longed to increase their daily writing output. In addition to updated information for Rachel's popular 2k to 10k writing efficiency process, 5 step plotting method, and easy editing tips, this new book includes chapters on creating characters that write their own stories, story structure, and learning to love your daily writing. Full of easy to follow, practical advice from a commercial author who doesn't eat if she doesn't produce good books on a regular basis, 2k to 10k focuses not just on writing faster, but writing better, and having more fun while you do it.*New for Fall 2013! This Revised Edition includes updates and corrections for all chapters!*… (more)
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Great insight and hits all the right buttons to make this writer/geek/efficiency addict happy.
Highly recommend.
I would recommend this book along with Stephen King's book, On Writing.
Following all three points of advice, I'm averaging over 4000 words per day, given six hours of writing per day. Rachell Aarons, a successful writer, tells of her own struggles to write and meet deadlines and how she discovered these steps on her own.
The second half of the book Rachel describes her editing techniques. I'm just starting to use one of her techniques: creating a scene chart. It's already helping me on my existing novel. I am a little disconcerted by her writing process at times. Typically, I'll see an entire story arch in my mind and write a series of scenes filling out the plot. But Ms. Aarons plans scenes BEFORE writing. I suppose we have some room for individual variation.
Aaron breaks down her exact process with wit and enthusiasm. Unlike many
However, much of what she details is common sense, or will already be familiar to authors who write most every day. While it's always good to have a refresher course, reading about how Star Wars is an example of three-act story structure isn't illuminating to me at this point; that's a well-worn example, used in who knows how many other places.
Still, I give this guide four stars for Aaron's clear, personable style and motivational spirit.
This novel had great points and ideas. The writer really knows her stuff. What I think it all comes down to is planning. If you've spent the time to plan, then the writing comes easy. But that being said, take the ideas this novel presents and make them your own.
Why the four stars? Many
I enjoyed this. I learned a lot. There was some new information and also had other information reinforced. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who is a writer or thinking about and working on being a writer/ author.
I will be coming back and rereading and looking this over
Worth it for that alone.