Outlinz Wift Collr

Musashi Sez:

Wen yu writs stuff that is verree, verree long—lik a whole payj or mor—it kin be diffrcult to remembrer whut yu’r goin to writ at the end. So yu has to writ it down befor yu forgets. This called a “outlin” but it not mayk sens, cuz if yu kin writ it down, yu dint fergit, rigt?

Mom sez that outlinz don’t hav to be detayld, an yu dosn’t eeven hav to writ egzaktlee. Yu kin drawr piktchurz, lik wift crayonz.

She sez that Mistr Wil Shaykspeer problee yoozd outlinz, cuz all his playz hav 5 parts borkd into bits wift numbrz, an mos of his pomz has 14 linz. An lotsa peeples lov his writin, so probabul outlinz arnt so stoopid aftr all. Huh.

2 Lessins fer the Price of 1

Musashi Sez:

OK. It turn out that I fergettid to giv yu Lessin 2 last week, so heer it is:

Lessin 2: Sayv evrthin yu writ.

This is verree importint, cuz if yu don’t sayv an then yu want it laytr, yu’r outa luk. Mom has all theez funnee drawrz wift payprz in them, an she’s alwaes pullin stuff out an lookin at it an putting it bak. Writerz do that a lot.

Lessin 4: Plannin is larjlee a sub-con-shus act-iv-i-tee. So yu gotta tayk lotsa naps.

Writin an Percastinaytin

Musashi Sez:

So yu may hav notisd that I has not writid fer a few days. This is calld procastinaytin. Mai mom is a porcastinayshun egspert. Peeples has payd her to adviz their prorastsinayshun. So I pays lotsa attenshun to whut she sez about it.

In genrul, she is for it as long as it is the constructive typ. This means thins lik sharpenin yer pensils, eevn if yu writs on the compyootr, an taykin showrz (which I am agenst on prinsipl), but it not inclood, fer egsampl, goin to Noo York fer the weekend. Also, yu kin watch som cool moovee or TV sho on Netflix fer lik mebbe 45 minutes as long as yu then work reellee hard and writ lotsa stuff fer 15-30 minutes aftr that. An if yu don’t, yu has to wait haf an hour befor yu kin watch somthin els or mor of the saym.

So: Lessin 3:

Procrastinayt if yu has to, but be constructiv about it.