Dear Writer, Are You Intuitive?

Questions to ask: “Do I see the next scene?” and “Do I need to phone a friend?”

But just because someone else does the activity for fun or for leisure or outside of their work time… that doesn’t mean it isn’t still work when it’s work.

We know before we know how we know.

far. Write about what you think is coming. Write about why you stopped. (Even if it’s “I don’t know.”) And then, generally, I encourage re-reading what you’ve just written. Maybe a couple of chapters’ worth.

I started tracking where I would say it (what was going on around the character) and when I would say it (what percentage of the word count) and how I would get out of it.

Some writers can’t put structure in the story, but they can discover structure. Why? Because they intuitively write structure into the story without realizing it.

So when it comes to something like editing, if you have gifted writer syndrome, you will likely struggle with editing because that’s not what you’ve spent your life being good at.

Increasing your ability to be wrong, or your ability to see failure as the path to success will pay off exponentially. This might be the most important skill an intuitive can possess.

When this type of don’t-know-what’s-wrong intuition happens, there will always be a fix that presents itself once you start digging in. It will often be a painful process (I can’t even begin to thank Terry and Krystal and Elli for all the times I’ve called them when I get stuck and they wrestle through it with me). Almost always, I need to dig deep