A writer's to-do list? Yes or no?

Umm I don’t have to-do lists. Are calendars to-do lists? I schedule everything I do in a day — afternoons are usually for writing.

As for the project itself, I’m very good at organising it all in my head lol. I see the big picture and know where I’m headed so I just jump into whatever bit I want to work on. There’s no specific target unless there’s a deadline — in which case it’s just “Get it done!”

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Sure.

True for me too. I just want to focus on writing when it is time to focus on it, but with a problem playing into my life, that ain’t easy.

So, I get bent out of shape about it, because I want to reach a writing goal, but I am also highly impatient about for now reason.

:sweat_smile:

Awesome.
Totally winging it and doing your own thing.

Sounds like me a bit or a lot, given the day or situation.

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Sometimes I do, but my lists usually have things on them like:

• rewrite outline
• remove second paragraph of chapter 3
• make list of possible names for new character
• find out what middle-class men wore for dinner in those days
• look up synonyms for munificent
• search for cottage core houses in Google Images
• etc.

So it’s not a list of optional things I’d like to do yet likely won’t, but rather things that absolutely have to be done in order for the story to move forward. ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯

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I have a magnetic one on one of my whiteboards . . .

Which I ignore

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I have a small whiteboard and I barely touch it.
LOL!

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I don’t, not really. :sweat_smile: I just make the goal to write that day and try to get to it. The act of writing is the only thing on the to-do list if there was one. xD

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Seems to be something most people here do.
LOL!

They don’t really need to make a list, just write what they need and keep it going. :slightly_smiling_face:

No not at all, just productive when the time arrives…

SD

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Ah, I understand now.

So, there are more people who want to just write by the seat of their pants than stick to a writerly to-do list.

That is cool and totally understandable.

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