Back when the first book was being written I looked up tips and advice for how to write effectively and avoid classic pitfalls of fiction writing.
In these online adventures I stumbled upon Vonda Mcintyre's little tips which I found to be really helpful. I really recommend that any prospective writers take a lookie look at this. Good ol Vonda.
I now follow, and am followed on twitter by a fair few authors who all participate in the PubWrite group, so theres plenty of good banter and advice floating between their chit-chat.
There was a nice rule that I read about writing flow, it may be in Vonda's list, to be honest I cannay remember. The little rule was this, start writing then after 20 minutes you will be into the story again and what you are writing will actually be good. So then you keep going and going untill you faint or your brain melts into a raisin. Final step, delete the first 20 minutes work and rewrite it to round off the writing session.
This is basically forming the assumption that everything you wrote for the first 20 minutes is just wrong. Or it's right but just written badly.
Often you can really tell where the first 20 minutes stops and the good writing begins. After practicing this routine a few times you can displace the 20 minutes of writing with either imagining or general thinking about what to write.
It helps, I think :)
