Tania Hershman’s Writing Routine
By Tania Hershman • Aug 6th, 2009 • Category: Essays, Feature Post, Writing RoutinesThen I make sure I have at least one Fast Wordscraper or Lexulous (Facebook scrabble-type games) going, and this seems to have become a critical part of my writing routine. You may think that playing one of these games while writing is a distraction, but I am here to tell you it isn’t: it helps. I start writing a flash story, using the set of prompts I have found, beginning with one word or phrase, seeing where that takes me, and then, whenever I need to, I grab another prompt and put it in. Something about using prompts puts me in that kind of dream-like zone where i am not thinking logically about what I am writing, I am letting it flow. And when I get to a stopping point where, if I carried on, it would be the logical mind and not the creative, I go to Wordscraper, play my turn, distracting my logical mind while the creative keeps whirring. And then I go back to the story.
