Character Traits. About a little thing called 750 Words. What are Narrative Tenses, and Why They're Important - Writing Academy. By George Wells George Wells is a teacher of English as a Second or Foreign Language, certified through The International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and the Secretariat of Public Education in Mexico (SEP). He is currently providing English training to electronic engineers entering the workforce in transnational companies at The Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (Cinvestav) in Guadalajara, Mexico. Let's begin at the beginning. No, wait. When telling a story, we often begin close to the climactic event and its resolution. The past perfect tells us what happened before the events we're already reading about in the past. When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around, she could see nothing but the great gray prairie on every side.
Now, we know that Dorothy stood, looked around, could see, and that the nothing broke the country that reached. This explains why she's seeing everything as gray. The Past Simple. Written? Kitten! Free Novel Writing Software. WriteTrack: untitled lesbian noir. How I Went From Writing 2,000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a Day. When I started writing The Spirit War (Eli novel #4), I had a bit of a problem. I had a brand new baby and my life (like every new mother's life) was constantly on the verge of shambles. I paid for a sitter four times a week so I could get some writing time, and I guarded these hours like a mama bear guards her cubs - with ferocity and hiker-mauling violence.
To keep my schedule and make my deadlines, I needed to write 4000 words during each of these carefully arranged sessions. I thought this would be simple. After all, before I quit my job to write full time I'd been writing 2k a day in the three hours before work. But (of course), things didn't work out like that. Needless to say, I felt like a failure.
When I told people at ConCarolinas that I'd gone from writing 2k to 10k per day, I got a huge response. So, once and for all, here's the story of how I went from writing 500 words an hour to over 1500, and (hopefully) how you can too: Update! As soon as I realized this, I stopped. Cheatsheet. Writing Excuses.