Guest contributor: Bill and Dave
Bad Advice Wednesday: New Year’s Resolutions for Writers from Dave and Bill
categories: Bad Advice / Cocktail Hour
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Bill and Dave, New Year’s Eve 1914
Dave: 1. Set your self a rigorous schedule and follow it for a week (Sunday included). You may just get a productive week out of it, but–who knows?–the routine might kick in and you’ll end up with a productive year.
Bill: 1. Try working at some radically different time of day.
Dave: 2. Drink (slightly) less
Bill: 2. Drink in the morning.
Dave: 3. Plan less, write more. At some point planning a book becomes like planning a bird’s nest.
Bill: 3. Plan a bird nest.
Dave: 4. Go back and finish something you’ve put aside.
Bill: 4. Start something new.
Dave: 5. Create a new work space or go back and jazz up your old one.
Bill: 5. Have three very portable things that say This is my work space! And set them up wherever you go.
Dave: 6. Don’t think so much.
Bill: 6. Don’t know too much.
Dave: 7. Think more.
Bill: 7. Think snow!
Dave: 8. Write something for Bill and Dave’s. I all but promise to make a guest head for you!
Bill: 8. Comment on this post and then regularly. Most comments for the year wins dinner with Bill and Dave. Tommy not eligible.
Happy New Year!
Where’s the dinner?
Am I now No. 1?
It’s a close race, but Karen K now holds the lead for the most comments in 2014. There’s a long season ahead of us, of course. But this really shows promise.
I demand a re-count!!
I rarely look at this yahoo account. It’s so 1999.
Does this count as a comment?
Score so far for 2014: Nina 1. Everyone else: 0.
Am I eligible?
Nina, you are eligible, but you might have to cook.
Nina slept with one of the judges. (I’m making this one stick!)