Day 46: The Tortoise Shell

It’s time to ruthlessly eliminate distractions from your creative work. What little distractions tether you to the real world and prevent you from fully immersing yourself in your writing?

We first learned about the “tortoise enclosure” from John Cleese, but at The Company, we’ve come to call it the Tortoise Shell.

ASSIGNMENT: Write for one hour, with a target of 1,000 words.

Before and after you write, consider: how good is your tortoise shell? How could you improve it?

FOR FURTHER STUDY: More from John Cleese on his creative process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y70nbDJI5Uk

For more strategies to do the work of writing a novel, check out The Novel Matrix by Brad Pauquette at NovelMatrix.com.

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