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Q&A How can I get into the mindset to write?

Depending on the weather, the days events, and other factors, I find myself with a different emotion everyday when I write which I'm afraid is making my novel a little bit choppy. For example, one ...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Clangorous Chimera‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T07:20:08Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/31421
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar Clangorous Chimera‭ · 2019-12-08T07:20:08Z (almost 5 years ago)
Depending on the weather, the days events, and other factors, I find myself with a different emotion everyday when I write which I'm afraid is making my novel a little bit choppy. For example, one chapter might be portrayed in a light mood, while the very next, for no literary reason, is written much darker because I received a bad phone call while I was writing. What I've tried to do is to abstain from writing until I'm in the appropriate mood with which I had started off the piece, but this is stopping me from writing on it a regular basis and slowing down the whole process significantly. I'm afraid that keeping the same personality is becoming more difficult as I stretch the length of time which which I'm writing it as I'm becoming a different person. So how do experienced writers help get into a specific "writing mood" for the piece they are working on?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2017-11-12T20:48:02Z (about 7 years ago)
Original score: 31