Day 19

Can you pinpoint a time when you found utter, uncomplicated joy in your writing? How can you recreate it? Can you find a way of playing with words that makes it joyful and fun? Do you love freewriting at speed or would you rather spend ages carefully crafting perfect words?

Set your 20 minute timer. Attack your WIP with a sense of playfulness and levity, and then come tell us about it in the forums.

Did work on the story but also wrote this on the forums:

I rediscovered my joy in writing when I did a stand up comedy course. The joy of stand up comedy is that the feedback is instantaneous. The horror of stand up comedy is that the feedback is instantaneous. But the actual writing felt totally different to anything I’d done before - it feel more like trying to solve puzzles and I think it’s a really useful skill to bring to writing fiction. The structure of jokes can be delightful and doing the course really freed me up to try new things without fear of whether they would work or not. I would definitely recommend it for anyone looking to step outside their comfort zone.