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It has been a while since I’ve talked about BIC – Butt in Chair, and HOC – Hands on Keyboard. One last part of this is WOP – Words on Page.
Lauren Harris, in a guest post on Magical Words on August 27, 2013, did a deep dive into “Eight Ways to HOCWOP”.
As she points out in the opening sentence, writing depends on one’s own discipline.
And after a day of work outside the house, and all the chores inside the house, finding the whip to get to a keyboard and CREATE, using up what little mental energy you have left, is a Herculean task. She came up with a list of very viable suggestions on how to type Words on Page. I’ve tried most of them over the years – some work for a time, others work in combo, and some just don’t work for me. But that is true of all writer advice, nothing is going to work for everyone.
The eight steps
- Clear your space
- Morning pages / Brain Dump / Journal
- Go Somewhere
- Write analog
- Find an accountability buddy
- Make a schedule
- Establish a trigger
- Set a timer.
She goes into detail about each of these, plus comments from experienced writers to the post can help a person figure out what is best to get BICHOKWOP.
Again the URL is: http://www.magicalwords.net/specialgueststars/eight-ways-to-hokwop/