Mini blog: the power of a nap
Hey gang,
Still super duper uber busy trying to wrap up GG3, so it's mini blog time:
All of you writers out there frequently write me with questions about what to do when they get blocked or stuck or just, in general, and I always say "well, you just have to write through it."
And that's true.
But today I remembered there's actually another (totally more fun) alternative:
TAKE A NAP!
I'm so not even kidding. Sometimes I'll work for hours and hours and hours on something, and then as soon as I go to bed or lay down to take a nap, I'll start to drift off to sleep and then my subconscious will kick in and say "here's the answer to your problem, stupid."
So, when it doubt. Sleep.
-Ally
PS...what made me realize this is that I took a nap this afternoon and as I was drifting off to sleep I had a major idea...
For book 6!
Still super duper uber busy trying to wrap up GG3, so it's mini blog time:
All of you writers out there frequently write me with questions about what to do when they get blocked or stuck or just, in general, and I always say "well, you just have to write through it."
And that's true.
But today I remembered there's actually another (totally more fun) alternative:
TAKE A NAP!
I'm so not even kidding. Sometimes I'll work for hours and hours and hours on something, and then as soon as I go to bed or lay down to take a nap, I'll start to drift off to sleep and then my subconscious will kick in and say "here's the answer to your problem, stupid."
So, when it doubt. Sleep.
-Ally
PS...what made me realize this is that I took a nap this afternoon and as I was drifting off to sleep I had a major idea...
For book 6!
posted by Ally Carter at Monday, May 05, 2008
39 Comments:
That's good advice. I always think of ideas for my book when I'm almost asleep.
Though usually I fall asleep and forget the idea. :)
(Book 6?!)
OMG book 6
good idea and so true.
Wow ur already planning book 6...
Glad ur getting thoughts going for it tho!
THERE ARE GOING TO BE SIX?!? AWESOME!!!!!
ps. i got all of my friends into the books and they all love them!
I love naps! I always end up accidentally napping whenever I read anything that isn't modern English. Seriously. We just read Great Expectations(Charles Dickens) and are now reading Romeo and Juliet in my English class. And I've fallen asleep reading both!
Good to know that there is a guarantee for book 6. yay!
*Marina*
OMG! BOOK 6????? AHHHHH!!!!! =]
<3 Renee
Wait a sec... does this mean you've already planned books 4 & 5?!? That is sooo exciting!!! Also, great advice. I often get inspired as i'm drifting off to sleep (unfortunately i go to sleep and forget the ideas :( )
Book 6? What happened to books 4 and 5? Well, I guess that's a really good thing, because then I can look forward to more awesome books! :)
Hey Ally,
I was just wondering if you were going to post the winning design of the tee shirt contest online. or explain to us what it would look like. Or have you still not chosen a winner yet. My friends and I, Elizabeth, Selena, Anna, and Dana (me) sent you two entry's but we forgot to put our ages. Does that mean that our tee shirt entry will be disqualified? We spent so much time on it!
-Dana
P.S. I read the Squad books like you requested and i loved them thanks for the suggestion! Do you have any other book suggestions?
thanx 4 the advice. i'm trying to write a book but ikeep getting writers block. i'm officialy on chapter 4. i want 2 know how u can be planning book #6 when u still haven't finished book #3. oh, well. all writers have their ways.
-curly
good idea. wish i had time to write a book. wish i had the time to nap. good thing i read fast or i still wouldnt have read gg3 when gg6 comes out.
p.s. real agents dont take naps. only half-naps
oh wow! Book six? That's so...well, there is no words to describe my excitment! Also, about the nap, I totally can't sleep during the day, so at like 5:30am I'll wake up and be all, wow, because I had an idea. Then I end up having a debate in my head about turning on the light or not to write it down. The thing is, I really can't just write it down in the dark, so I have to turn on the light. So, I usually just go back to sleep. The idea is forgotten.
Naps really do help. I've done that. Kewl! Book 6!!!!! And your finishing up book 3!?!? Awesomeness! You can do it, Ally!!
- spy_in_disguise
:)
Omg i love naps like crazy. Right now because school is almost over im trying to become nocternal again because its a good habbit to get into when your friends stay over every other day and you always stay up to like 4 in the morning playing video games... yes we're addicted... anyway im glad their is going to be more books but it kinda makes me feel old because im 18 right now so book six would come out when im like old and that would be wierd reading an teen book at like 26 .. not that i wouldnt do it. anyway keep up your great napping skills!
Stephanie
I love naps! I think adults should be able to take an afternoon nap each day. When you are little you have so much energy you fight naptime. As an adult, you have learned that naptime will make you more productive(at least it helps me).
wow!!! book 6????!!!! wow! hurry with gg3 then!!! well dont rush but get it done!! im really excited!!! any idea when gg3 comes out????
That's amazing! YAY BOOK 6!
0.o book six? wouldn't that be like...cammie's senior year spring quarter? dang...must now go take nap...haha
Briana
book 6?? YAY! i luv how u just kind of slipped it in there like you were trying to make sure we were paying attention. judging by the comments, most of us were! lol.
-gallaghergirl95
im confused r u writing more then one book at the moment cuz if ur writing book 3 wouldn't it be a idea for book four cuz u haven't wrote it yet......
Book 6!
Are u serious 6 books? I can wait please hurry!
ps. love ur books!
Great! Thanks, Ally! i'll try that when i get stuck on my book. (Which will probably be tomorrow or the day after...)
Book 6? Awesome! That means you have to write 3, 4, & 5! Yay! It's a guarantee!
can't wait until 3 4 5 AND 6!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(finish 3 first though)
:-)
OMFJinas!!! Book 6! Super excited, keep me posted,
---Jessi
book 6 as in the total number of books written? or gg book 6? im freakin out man!!
OH-MY-GOSH!! Book 6?! OH-MY-GOSH!! That's all I can say.
Oh my god! You're really ahead of the game, Ally. The idea is just taunting....
BOOK 6!?! OMG! Wow, you're really gonna have to hurry this third book up if I'm ever gonna have time to read until the 6th one!
Does that apply to math, also? Because if so, all my problems will be solved, literally!
Thanks Ally, and book six? In what series?
Wow, book 6! That's fantabulous!!! Can't wait! Keep on writing!!!
-Kenzi !)
first, im tortured by the suspence of book 3. Now you feel the need to torture me with book 6???????
P.S. I just got up from a nap and I truly do feel energized.
Ally, be like a runner in a race. FAST!! I want that 6th book!!
---Jessi
omg book 6!?
wait, so books 4 and 5 have already been planned?
yeya
Becca-Leigh
So if you're already thinking about book #6, then that means that you're almost finished with book 3, right?
Exactly how far are you...?
:) ~Pris
Heck yes Book SIX thats going to be awesome! counting down the days till GG3 comes out please dont make us wait any longer!
theres a book six?
(Man am i behind the times)
BOOK FREAKIN 6!!
Sleeping and taking naps are great ideas for how you can get your creative juices flowing, but how can we sleep when we found out there's going to be a book 6!? =)
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