Anything to save time, right?

Yeah, and I have actually written boilerplate with blanks filled in with comments in brackets describing the information I still need.

Great idea, David! Kind of a fill-in-the-blanks draft. I like it.

Good seeing you here. 🙂

Snippity-do-dah — LOVE it! LOL

I’m looking at about 2,600 words that have to be whittled to 600. I’m great with that because people do repeat themselves, and sometimes the little side comments shape the whole story.

I had a short article due today, and have about 10 times the information than the word count could handle. I just started writing—based on my highlighted transcript of the interview—knowing I can cut things later. Wound up cutting the lead and moving a fun quote to the top…snippity-do-dah, and it was done – about 16 words under the maximum assigned length.

Sometimes you just have to dive in knowing it will all work itself out in the end.

Gabriella and Joy, yes. I love it! The lead is the beginning. If we start, we aren’t sitting there doing nothing. Brilliant!

Gabriella, yes, that’s what I do–just get what I can into a document, because it’s always easier to edit than to write. It sounds like using Lori’s strategies would make this struggle more efficient.

You have a ‘what the hell’ draft, I do a just-write-it lead.

When I’m really struggling, I just tell myself, write the lead and get moving. I can come back and fix it, but I force myself to get going!