Sep 16 2009
Use this Hemingway Technique to Jumpstart Your Writing Every Day
If you’ve been reading up on writers and writers, you would have come across this Hemingway technique.
Hemingway discusses it in his book, A Moveable Feast, among his other sketches on life in Paris.
The technique is to stop writing when the going is good. Hemingway advises you to stop at the point where you know what’s coming next.
The whole idea of stopping thus is to provide you with the momentum for your writing the next day.
If you have trouble starting writing every day, this technique could come in handy. Instead of having to rack your brains wondering what to write, you’ll just have to jump in and continue with the flow.
To make this technique work, you would probably have to stop your writing in mid-sentence or stop at a point where you’re asking a question.
For example, you can stop at a point where a character is asking another, “How did you escape from the robbers?”
You know what the other character is going to say. You stop there although you’re tempted to write on.
The next day, you can be rest assured to jump straight into the writing and continue.
Now, Hemingway used this technique to write his novels. Can this technique be applied to short story or article writing or even blogging?
Check this article out.
