Comments on: Is lack of reflection sabotaging your writing? https://www.publicationcoach.com/why-writers-should-reflect/ & Gray-Grant Communications Thu, 12 Oct 2017 01:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Daphne Gray-Grant https://www.publicationcoach.com/why-writers-should-reflect/#comment-9637 Thu, 12 Oct 2017 01:16:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=17287#comment-9637 In reply to Julie.

Happy you found the questions useful. Many tools that are useful for other parts of life are also exceptionally helpful to writers!

]]> By: Daphne Gray-Grant https://www.publicationcoach.com/why-writers-should-reflect/#comment-9636 Thu, 12 Oct 2017 01:15:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=17287#comment-9636 In reply to Pat Bowden.

Glad to help, Pat!

]]> By: Daphne Gray-Grant https://www.publicationcoach.com/why-writers-should-reflect/#comment-9635 Thu, 12 Oct 2017 01:15:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=17287#comment-9635 In reply to Tom Morrisey.

People sometimes criticize me for my obsession with word counts but I’ve always felt it’s very important to have a goal…and to HIT it!

]]> By: Daphne Gray-Grant https://www.publicationcoach.com/why-writers-should-reflect/#comment-9634 Thu, 12 Oct 2017 01:14:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=17287#comment-9634 In reply to Jagadish Kumar.

Oh, yes. Reflection will help EVERYONE!

]]> By: Daphne Gray-Grant https://www.publicationcoach.com/why-writers-should-reflect/#comment-9633 Thu, 12 Oct 2017 01:14:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=17287#comment-9633 In reply to Lesley Grainge.

Lesley, take a look at my video on reverse engineering. It’s short and I think it will really help you a lot. https://www.publicationcoach.com/reverse-engineering-for-writers/

]]> By: Jagadish Kumar https://www.publicationcoach.com/why-writers-should-reflect/#comment-9632 Wed, 11 Oct 2017 13:32:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=17287#comment-9632 Felt welcome to consider the idea (reflection) more broadly. I was delighted that I could practice the idea despite not being a person who writes as a profession.

]]> By: Lesley Grainge https://www.publicationcoach.com/why-writers-should-reflect/#comment-9631 Wed, 11 Oct 2017 09:00:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=17287#comment-9631 I can see that one of my problems is not paying attention to interim planning or deadlines. I messed something up totally last week for exactly this reason. I was too focussed on the finished product which has since been scrapped. Your article has caused me to reflect on that as I set out to start again today which I have dedicated to mind mapping and that first draft you have been talking about so much.

]]> By: Julie https://www.publicationcoach.com/why-writers-should-reflect/#comment-9630 Wed, 11 Oct 2017 01:09:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=17287#comment-9630 Oh yes! I have Asperger’s Syndrome and Reflection is the best tool in my toolbox. Your questions for writers are perfect! I hadn’t thought about using it for my writing. Silly me…

]]> By: Pat Bowden https://www.publicationcoach.com/why-writers-should-reflect/#comment-9629 Tue, 10 Oct 2017 18:59:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=17287#comment-9629 The paragraph about word counts is particularly useful. Thank you for another great post, Daphne!

]]> By: Tom Morrisey https://www.publicationcoach.com/why-writers-should-reflect/#comment-9628 Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:33:00 +0000 http://pubcoach2018.wpengine.com/?p=17287#comment-9628 Amen on word counts. A few years into my career as a novelist, I figured out that my readers and my publishers both were happiest when my contemporay fiction came in at 97,500 words and my action-adventure thrillers clocked in at 115,000 words (I guess the extra 17,500 words were what scared the tar out of the readers).

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