Comments on: Can Being Tired Make Us Better Writers? https://authorkristenlamb.com/2014/12/can-being-tired-make-us-better-writers/ Author, Blogger, Social Media Jedi Sun, 04 Dec 2016 16:15:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Dido's Desolate Domain https://authorkristenlamb.com/2014/12/can-being-tired-make-us-better-writers/#comment-54104 Sun, 04 Dec 2016 16:15:54 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=16506#comment-54104 SO GLAD I FOUND THIS ARTICLE! I’ve been writing whilst tired for over two years. I’ve even stayed up until around four or five in the morning doing FINE-TUNE edits. Don’t ask me how. On top of that, I have endometriosis, which means around four or five days of blitzkrieg in my pelvis every month, and yet some of my best writing has come from this period. (Pun unintentional). Right now, I’m guilty of having been online shopping instead of editing this chapter, so now that I’ve read this article, I’m back to work.

]]> By: Author Kristen Lamb https://authorkristenlamb.com/2014/12/can-being-tired-make-us-better-writers/#comment-54103 Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:43:06 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=16506#comment-54103 In reply to ocjarman1.

Try cutting gluten out of your diet. Do it three days. If your body can’t tolerate it, when you get into it again you will know. When I didn’t realize I was allergy, I was exhausted all the time. Even diagnosed with CFS, Barr-Epstien, and Mono. All it was? Couldn’t tolerate gluten.

]]> By: ocjarman1 https://authorkristenlamb.com/2014/12/can-being-tired-make-us-better-writers/#comment-54102 Tue, 06 Jan 2015 01:33:38 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=16506#comment-54102 Hi again! Is there a difference between being tired & being sleepy? For the longest time, I’ve been very sleepy, to the point of dozing off at my desk. My WIP suffers as a result.

]]> By: Isabel Elliott https://authorkristenlamb.com/2014/12/can-being-tired-make-us-better-writers/#comment-54101 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 22:44:02 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=16506#comment-54101 I tried an experiment. After writing this post i challenged myself to writewhen i was really fatigued. I always assumed that if I was tired and tried to write I would just stare at the screen and struggle to produce every sentence. I found out the oppsite was true because when I was tired so was my inner critique. I spent less time fighting over every sentence. I was able to settle into a peaceful rhythm, that when i am feeling awake and alert isnt possible. It is nice that I can’t use the “I’m too tired excuse” anymore. Thank you for all of your helpful guidance.

]]> By: womenwhothinktoomuch https://authorkristenlamb.com/2014/12/can-being-tired-make-us-better-writers/#comment-54100 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 00:39:12 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=16506#comment-54100 Reblogged this on Women Who Think Too Much by Jeanne Marie and commented:
I hope so…

]]> By: Framework: Skeleton vs Bag-of-Bones | The Gillicrist Pen https://authorkristenlamb.com/2014/12/can-being-tired-make-us-better-writers/#comment-54099 Thu, 18 Dec 2014 20:07:42 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=16506#comment-54099 […] So I happened to read a cool blog post by author Kristen Lamb a few weeks ago. Her newsletters are pretty entertaining—full of snark […]

]]> By: Cindy Bruchman https://authorkristenlamb.com/2014/12/can-being-tired-make-us-better-writers/#comment-54098 Tue, 16 Dec 2014 13:05:22 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=16506#comment-54098 Great article. I’ve been forcing myself to plunge forward without thinking about it. I think in terms of the human body. The skeletal system first, then add the organs and add the blood stream, etc. Or, I’ll take one chapter at a time otherwise, I feel daunted with so much revision ahead of me. I’m impatient. I want to see how the story ends 😉

]]> By: Weekly Top Ten: Quotes | Planted in the Sky https://authorkristenlamb.com/2014/12/can-being-tired-make-us-better-writers/#comment-54097 Sun, 14 Dec 2014 23:37:38 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=16506#comment-54097 […] late, and I’m tired, but I’m not going to let that stop me. According to my favourite Kristen Lamb (she’s probably the only Kristen Lamb, but she can still be my favourite) that’s […]

]]> By: Talia Pente https://authorkristenlamb.com/2014/12/can-being-tired-make-us-better-writers/#comment-54096 Sun, 14 Dec 2014 13:12:38 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=16506#comment-54096 Hi Kristen,

I must say I am one of those people who constantly passed on Nano due to the timing. It wasn’t so much the holiday as it was the fact that practically everybody I am related to is born in November–parents, nieces, husband, offspring…obviously Valentine’s Day works!

This year, however, I plunged in. I hooked up with a few friends and got connected with a group that does constant sprinting…and I DID it! And Damn it was hard.I’m still plugging away on the novel and last night I read some of what I wrote and it’s bare bones…but it’s there. On the page. Waiting for me.

And some amazing things began happening…like plot twists and really cool backstory and ideas for the next novel in the series…heck, I even managed some foreshadowing. It was fabulous to be so focused.

Of course I do have a brother with a JD who actually commented that 50K in a month should be “easy.” But then, my other brother and I have been saying that he was left on the doorstep by gypsies for decades.

Glad that you are feeling better, too.

]]> By: myrealjourney https://authorkristenlamb.com/2014/12/can-being-tired-make-us-better-writers/#comment-54095 Thu, 11 Dec 2014 23:09:59 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=16506#comment-54095 Reblogged this on Myrealjourney and commented:
Thanks a lot, for generous mentoring. We’re all tired, but fulfilled!

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