Ep. 247: Amy E. Reichert on Writers and Procrastination

Amy E. Reichert is an author, wife, mom, Wisconsinite, amateur chef, and cider enthusiast. She earned her MA in English Literature and serves on her library’s board of directors. She’s a member of Tall Poppy Writers. THE KINDRED SPIRITS SUPPER CLUB is her most recent novel. 

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Transcript:

Rachael Herron: [00:00:00] Welcome to “How do you Write?” I’m your host, Rachael Herron. On this podcast, I talk to authors about how they write, what their process is and how their lives fit together. I’ll keep each episode short so you can get back to writing.

[00:00:16] Well, Hello writers! Welcome to episode #247 of “How do you Write?” I’m Rachael Herron. So thrilled you’re here today with me as I’m speaking to Amy Reichert about one of our favorite topics of all time, procrastination. I have this working theory and I bet you subscribed to it too. That writers are better procrastinators than most normal human people. There is something about writing. Well, I know what it is. There’s something about writing that makes us procrastinate because it is painful, because it is never as easy and as fun as say, takin’ a walk to the local ice cream parlor, is it requires thought and effort and an angst and low levels of pain, sometimes high levels of pain.

[00:01:08] Of course we become expert procrastinators. There are exceptions. You may be, one of those people who actually gets their work done early every time. I really liked to listen to Adam Grant’s podcast, which forgotten what it’s called but it’s really good. And he is a, he calls himself a pre-crastinator. He loves to get an assignment and start working on it that very day. But the majority of us are not that, we are procrastinators. So, I know you’ll enjoy the episode. Very quickly what it’s going on around here? Well, we’re on the grand adventure. We’re still in the same Airbnb where I was last week. We move this next week out on Sunday, this coming Sunday, we’re going to have our going away party, which I’m kind of sick about. Honestly, I’m so nervous. I don’t like goodbyes at all. I, as a recovering addict, I have made my whole life about avoiding pain, and throwing yourself a goodbye party as you leave the country so that you can say goodbye to the people who are most beloved to you really sucks. 

[00:02:21] However, I do think a lot about discomfort and living with it and thriving with it. I think we have to, as writers, we have to get comfortable being uncomfortable because writing is discomfort. Writing is resistance, is the discomfort that we feel. And we must be able to sit down with that discomfort and just do the work. So I’m thinking a lot about that as I think about this party coming up, I’m walking toward it with as much of an open-heart as I can. Understanding, and I’m going to cry a lot that day and I hate crying, and I’m getting to better and better at doing it. I’m going to walk forward knowing that it is going to hurt and that, that is part of life. And that I want to see these people and I want to be around them. And I want to tell them that I love them. So, that’s, what’s coming up for me this weekend. I am being saved. My ass is being saved by Pomodoro’s. I mentioned this on Twitter yesterday, but in the busiest times of my life, when everything is all chaos, Pomodoro’s always come to my rescue. I- Pomodoro’s, if you don’t know what they are, it is just a technique of writing in bursts; a traditional Pomodoro is 25 minutes working for 25 minutes and then taking five minutes to do something else.

[00:03:46] Usually it is prescribed to do something that does not checking your email or your Twitter or something that has a lot of open loops. You want to do some closed loop stuff on that five-minute break, go get yourself another glass of water. Go to the bathroom, get a snack. Do something that won’t completely hijack you and your brain and for me on a normal and in a normal life, 25 minutes is an irritating time. Amount of time to get stopped in. And I prefer to work in 45 minute chunks or hour chunks, but on these chaotic days where I know that I wouldn’t get any writing done, I have been setting my goal of a bare minimum of two to four Pomodoro’s because you know what? I cannot write today. I will absolutely not write today. There’s no way I’m going to write today. But, could I write for 25 minutes? Okay, fine, fine. Turn on the Pomodoro timer. And for me on Mac, I like to use the Be Focused app, I have the paid version of Be Focused and it works well for me. 

[00:04:46] So I just turn it on and I do 25 minutes and after 25 minutes, oh suddenly that time is up. It didn’t take that long. Take a little break. I guess I could do another one. So I do another one and that has been saving me. That is the only way I’m getting work done. So I mention it just in case. I know we’ve been talking about it a couple of times on the podcast. Recently here, because I’ve heard from people hello, Eliza, who have heard about it and have tried it and I’ve loved it. So I’m saying it again to reiterate. If you’re not getting your work done, try to get some smaller chunks of work done. One of my students is writing in 12 minute bursts because that is her. And then another one is doing 17 minute bursts because that is the least amount of time that feels like they can actually get a number of words that would make them feel like they have a little bit of success. So they’re doing that. What is your minimum viable product? Have you decided that, have you tried it, have you played with it? I want to know. So come find me. If you’re not on my email newsletter list, you should be, I’m going to ask you to subscribe to it. And I’m going to put it in the little add read in the middle today. Join my email list. That is important. I promise you, I’m going to send one out really soon. Maybe I’ll use a Pomodoro to write one really quickly to get it out because I have not done that in a while. But everything else is going a pace. Very excited. We will be in the air in two and a half weeks. And, I’ll just keep talking to you from New Zealand, tell you how it’s going there. So my friends happy writing to you. Get some work done. Come to find me online and tell me how it’s going. And now please interview this enjoy, how about enjoy this interview with Amy? Happy writing everybody. 

[00:06:30] Hey, you’re a writer. Did you know that I send out a free weekly email of writing encouragement? Go sign up for it at www.rachaelherron.com/write and you’ll also get my Stop Stalling and Write PDF with helpful tips you can use today to get some of your own writing done. Okay, now onto the interview. 

Rachael Herron: [00:06:30] All right. Well, I could not be more pleased to welcome to the show, Amy E. Reichert. Hello, Amy! 

Amy E. Reichert: [00:06:52] Hello, Rachael. Thank you for having me. 

Rachael Herron: [00:06:54] It is a pleasure to have you, let me give you a little introduction and then we’re going to jump in talking about all things writing. Amy E. Reichert is an author, wife, mom, Wisconsinite, amateur chef, and cider enthusiast. She earned her MA in English Literature and serves on her library’s board of directors. I love that. That’s sexy. 

Amy E. Reichert: [00:07:13] Thank you.

Rachael Herron: [00:07:14] It really is. She’s a member of it really is library’s board of directors. Wow. She’s a member of the tall copywriters and THE KINDRED SPIRITS SUPPER CLUB is her most recent novel. So congratulations on that. The covers amazing

Amy E. Reichert: [00:07:27] Thank you! I have it right here. 

Rachael Herron: [00:07:30] It’s, look at that beautiful! That is- Oh my gosh!

Amy E. Reichert: [00:07:32] It looks really good on the screen. 

Rachael Herron: [00:07:35] It looks amazing. I was just actually looking at it a minute ago, thinking like you won a cover lottery for that one. Good job! 

Amy E. Reichert: [00:07:41] Thank you. Well, I had nothing to do with it. I just

Rachael Herron: [00:07:47] I know, but it’s really nice when we do hit that lottery and we’re like, yeah. Thanks. So tell us about your writing process. How do you get your books done with all of this other stuff? You mentioned that the kids are going to be walking in the door any minute. 

Amy E. Reichert: [00:07:59] Yes. 

Rachael Herron: [00:08:00] They’re back in school? What does it look like? 

Amy E. Reichert: [00:08:02] They are back- they’ve been in school the whole year. They, it was a hybrid situation where we were so, like if there was a contact tracing situation, they’d be at home for a couple of weeks and then they’d go back.

Rachael Herron: [00:08:15] It sounds smart

Amy E. Reichert: [00:08:17] It was really, really well done. They’ve been wearing masks, they have spacing. They know you have to sit in the exact same spot so that if there is someone who’s, who hasn’t, you know who they were in contact with. So it’s been really, they’ve kept it open. And I think that was a big win for our school district. 

Rachael Herron: [00:08:34] Probably a win for your writing as well. 

Amy E. Reichert: [00:08:36] Yeah, I can procrastinate and under the best of circumstances

Rachael Herron: [00:08:42] under any circumstances, if you’re like me. Yeah.

Amy E. Reichert: [00:08:44] Yeah. I’m really, really good at that. That’s my super power. Sadly, most that, like, I can get away with doing that with cleaning. Cause eventually, somehow I can get things off of the list. Someone else will just do it, that doesn’t work with writing. No one else, there aren’t little elves that come in and do the writing for me. So at some point I do have to do it.

Rachael Herron: [00:09:05] So when do you do, how do you do it? How do you, this is a really actually, it’s a really good, big question. How do you deal with your procrastination with our writerly procrastination?

Amy E. Reichert: [00:09:13] I know. It’s, I am constantly looking for the right solutions. First of all, I know with me, the key is to know what I’m writing next. So, having an idea of this is the scene I’m going to be going into, and here are two or three things that are supposed to happen or need to be accomplished in that scene. If I know that, I am super productive and I will get right to it and I will knock it out. If I don’t know that, which is kind of where I am right now, it doesn’t help that I’m pre-launch so I’m easily distracted. But, so I’ve been really having a hard time getting my words in. I actually need to sit down and look at what I need to do next cause I’m like midway through that first draft, I’m like, I don’t know what I have. I don’t know what I need to do. Cause I don’t write chronologically all the time. So I kind of write this, I want to write this scene. I’m gonna write this scene and as ideas come to me, so I kind of end up all over the place without any lines connected, 

Rachael Herron: [00:10:20] Which I’m always telling my students it’s okay. Because we connect those things later. Right. So, where would you put yourself on the plotter versus pantsers spectrum?

Amy E. Reichert: [00:10:31] I am a plotter. I definitely have pantser tendencies. I like to know, I like to, maybe I’m a plotter. Like if I were a sandwich, I’d be- the bread would be the plotting and then the filling is the pantsing. 

Rachael Herron: [00:10:50] I love that.

Amy E. Reichert: [00:10:51] Thanks! I just came up with it. 

Rachael Herron: [00:10:52] That’s where all the flavor is. That’s where all the delicious, that’s where the cheese is. 

Amy E. Reichert: [00:10:57] You’ve even made it better! So I was trying to do like horoscope. Like I’m a plotter with pantser rising, but I don’t really understand. I don’t understand horoscope language. So I don’t really know what that means. But I do like to know my big major moments. I have to know that I do write a very like four to five-page detailed synopsis of what’s going to happen. I know how it’s going to end. I do give myself permission to change that if a better idea comes along. But how I get from those big tent pole moments, kind of, I fill in the blank as I go. And I like to give myself that freedom. But at the same time, I hate that I give myself freedom. Cause it results in moments like this, where I don’t know what I want to write next and I need to rethink and get back down to it. My current, like a very specific thing I’m doing right now, is I have created, a handy-dandy or I don’t know if we’re going to see it. 

Rachael Herron: [00:12:01] Oh, yeah I can see it.

Amy E. Reichert: [00:12:03] Kind of. So it’s like a sprint to the finish. Each of those little squares is a 30-minute writing sprint. 

Rachael Herron: [00:12:07] Oh nice!

Amy E. Reichert: [00:12:09] I write down my words, which is really great. Assuming I will sit down and do that again. A writing sprint is only as good. It was only good. If you know what you’re supposed to be writing. 

Rachael Herron: [00:12:22] I saw the number of boxes is that predicted to the end of the book, like to the word count that you’re aiming toward. That’s fantastic. I’ve never seen it exactly like that because you, you know, approximately how many of those little sprints you’re going to take?

Amy E. Reichert: [00:12:34] Yeah. Cause I have about 45 thousand words and in a 30-minute writing sprint, I can get anywhere from like 500 to 700 words. Sometimes, I mean it varies obviously. So yeah, that’ll bump me up to about a 70,000-page draft by the time I’m done, which is what I like for a first draft, I tend to write very bare bones. In fact, I’d be happy with 60 

Rachael Herron: [00:13:02] and then you’re going to put, then you’re going to put the filling in the sandwich.

Amy E. Reichert: [00:13:04] Then I put the filling in the sandwich. Someone, I was talking to someone cause I’m writing a book. My next book is a Christmas book which is really all I’ll say about it. But someone asked if I was watching a lot of Christmas movies and listening to Christmas music and I’m like, no, not really, because I’m trying to do my bread. So

Rachael Herron: [00:13:24] You’re doing the story, that’s what’s important. Yeah. 

Amy E. Reichert: [00:13:26] Yeah. So once I get to like all the window dressing, all the flavor in the middle, then I’ll get in Christmas mode but not yet. I like our sandwich analogy, it’s gold! 

Rachael Herron: [00:13:38] It’s working on multiple levels and it’s kind of also making me hungry, which is, which is normal. 

Amy E. Reichert: [00:13:42] Yeah. Me too.

Rachael Herron: [00:13:43] What is your biggest challenge when it comes to writing? 

Amy E. Reichert: [00:13:48] Beyond procrastination which is, I think I even wrote something down. Yes. Yeah. Procrastination is consistency. I think that is the other big thing is, when you want just being, getting the butt in the chair every day. And it’s not always a procrastination situation. It’s a life situation with kids, especially moving into baseball season and to the school year and the summer I’d much rather be on our pontoon than writing. 

Rachael Herron: [00:14:16] Hell yes!

Amy E. Reichert: [00:14:18] So I think consistency is something I really strive for. I’ve tried- I have a dear friend, her name is Karma Brown and oh, I don’t have it with me. I lent it to someone. She wrote a book called the 4% Fix she’s, she normally writes fiction, but she wrote a nonfiction, called the 4% Fix. And the idea is that, you carve out an hour of time, every day to accomplish something that you want to accomplish. And she ultimately uses that hour for writing. I actually have started using it for reading, cause I wasn’t reading enough, but then I started doing like an 8% fix where I would read for an hour and then I’d write for an hour. And if I can consistently do that, it’s like, I feel like I can conquer the world. So that is my goal is to be consistent about reading and writing for at least an hour every day, which sounds like not a lot of time, but you’re a writer. You understand how much other 

Rachael Herron: [00:15:11] It’s all the other stuff. There’s this great quote, and I need to figure out who said it. But you can accomplish your life’s the work of your life and half an hour a day, you know, I’ve written a whole books in like 45 minute chunks day after day. Not more than that, so yeah, Absolutely. What is your biggest joy? Oh, sorry, go on. 

Amy E. Reichert: [00:15:30] Oh, what does it say? Let’s be honest. We actually are half of it. More than half of it is in your brain when you’re wandering around doing nothing. 

Rachael Herron: [00:15:38] Absolutely 

Amy E. Reichert: [00:15:39] It looks like nothing. 

Rachael Herron: [00:15:41] It’s very profitable. And why don’t our families know that, but 

Amy E. Reichert: [00:15:45] They should! Like, I’ll be playing my candy crush. It’s actually a Harry Potter version of candy crush. And my husband’s like, that’s not working. You bet it is. You just don’t know it. 

Rachael Herron: [00:15:56] Absolutely is, no one trusts us. 

Amy E. Reichert: [00:15:59] Yeah. There might be a little bit to that. 

Rachael Herron: [00:16:03] Don’t let them listen to this podcast episode. 

Amy E. Reichert: [00:16:06] No I won’t. 

Rachael Herron: [00:16:08] What is your biggest joy when it comes to writing?

Amy E. Reichert: [00:16:10] My biggest joy, there’s, I would say there’s two things that are tied because they count and they’re very different points in the process. One is when something clicks in a story and you’re just like, oh my God, this is the plot point I was trying to get to and didn’t know how I was going to click on that. Oh my God, I’m genius. That doesn’t happen often, 

Rachael Herron: [00:16:35] But when it does, it’s so good. 

Amy E. Reichert: [00:16:38] It’s crap. You know, it’s what keeps me going. That and when I have the finished book and people start reading it and people start saying, oh my God, this, this book was just what I needed right now. And because of, I tend to write lighter, happier books. So for a lot of people, what they come to me and say is I had a really bad, things were really bad for me and I read your book and it just added some brightness to my day and that, doesn’t get any better. 

Rachael Herron: [00:17:09] That is like the most honorable thing we could reach for, right?

Amy E. Reichert: [00:17:13] Yes. Yeah. Because that’s why I read, I just want to, not that my life is horrible, but I just want to get out of it. So 

Rachael Herron: [00:17:20] Yeah, and you wanna go somewhere else. 

Amy E. Reichert: [00:17:23] To be able to do that for other people? Oh, so good. 

Rachael Herron: [00:17:25] You’re so fun to talk to. All right. Can you share a craft tip with our writers of any kind?

Amy E. Reichert: [00:17:30] I actually wrote this down cause you gave me the questions, in advance, because I didn’t want to forget. So people often say when you are in like the later drafting phases, you should read your work out loud. I hate reading out loud.

Rachael Herron: [00:17:47] Me too. And I don’t do it. 

Amy E. Reichert: [00:17:48] I hate it. And so I don’t do it either because to read a book out loud, that’s like 15 hours of time. I don’t want to do that. That’s a lot of talking that I don’t want to do, but I use Scrivener and I think Microsoft word does this too. And it will read it to you. Now it’s super funny, cause it’s kind of a robot voice, but it really, really, it helps me because I can listen to it being read to me and all of a sudden that changes things because I have like, I’m more likely to keep working because the other part is if I’m reading out loud, I hate reading out loud. So then I’m like more to procrastinate and go do something else. But if my computer’s reading to me, then I get a lot more, like it keeps the ball rolling better, and then I’ll pause it and make changes when something sounds funny and then I’ll start it up again. And it just, I discovered it during my, when I was writing Kindred Spirits and I, it was really, really helpful for me as a way to, when you’re working at that sentence level.

Rachael Herron: [00:18:48] Yeah. So you’re playing it and you’re looking at it at the same time and 

Amy E. Reichert: [00:18:52] Correct. 

Rachael Herron: [00:18:53] And you’re actually looking for things like rhythm and words, repetition as well as- I use it for typos, but it sounds like you’re using it for actual helping you with it with the sentence level.

Amy E. Reichert: [00:19:00] Yeah. Cause even like, even if the robot, when the robot voice seems to stumble then you know there’s something wrong or I can’t follow, like that made no sense. And then I’ll double check. Was it the robot voice reading it or no, it really doesn’t make sense. I’ll fix that. I find it really helpful.

Rachael Herron: [00:19:18] One of my biggest problem as a writer is writing those sentences that don’t make sense later. Like they made sense to me. But,

Amy E. Reichert: [00:19:23] They do!

Rachael Herron: [00:19:24] But not when somebody else like a robot reads them out loud. I love that. I love that.

Amy E. Reichert: [00:19:28] Yeah. So Scrivener’s magical. I really, really love Scrivener. I’m always finding new things

Rachael Herron: [00:19:36]. I know you only need that. Speaking of 4%, you only need to know about 4% of Scrivener’s tricks to use it. And I’ve been using it for as long as it’s been out. I think I got it at 13 years ago or something like that. And I’m still finding things. 

Amy E. Reichert: [00:19:49] Yeah. And I really do only use 4% of it. 

Rachael Herron: [00:19:51] Did you know it has a name generator? 

Amy E. Reichert: [00:19:53] Oh yeah. I like that one. 

Rachael Herron: [00:19:55] That’s a good one. 

Amy E. Reichert: [00:19:57] That is a good one. 

Rachael Herron: [00:19:58] Okay. 

Amy E. Reichert: [00:19:59] I need a waiter, what’s the waiter’s name? Harvey!

Rachael Herron: [00:20:02] Exactly. I haven’t, I’ve literally no creativity to spare on wasting on the waiter’s name. It does it for us. That’s fantastic. Okay, so-

Amy E. Reichert: [00:20:09] People are really funny. 

Rachael Herron: [00:20:11] I know. And you could set the like, idiosyncracy, of the name too. If people haven’t found that it’s under writing tools, I think. What thing in your life affects your writing in a surprising way?

Amy E. Reichert: [00:20:24] What thing in my life, I should’ve thought more about that one. I got to like question three and then I got distracted. About what affects my writing in surprising ways. I shouldn’t be thinking about this so long, but I am. I want to, I think part of it is going back to that time crunch and how we get a lot of writing done in short amount of time because I am a mom. I have found my most productive writing times are sometimes sitting in the car, waiting for a kid to come out. And that kind of surprised me. When you know, you always think to write productively, you must be in your space, but in truth, I find being flexible and willing to work everywhere. Actually, the most productive place for me to write is on an airplane because there’s no internet.

Rachael Herron: [00:21:24] I love it. I am not spending $15 on your internet. I will not do it. And it sucks like I’m cheap and lazy. Yeah. Also, I really love, I really love airport. Oh, no. Sorry. I like hotel lobbies there’s so, back when we used to travel. They’re so generic and it’s hard to get on the internet and not in a hotel too. Brilliant! I love that. Okay. So what is the best book you’ve read recently?

Amy E. Reichert: [00:21:49] So I recently read Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin. Two seconds 

Rachael Herron: [00:21:57] Yes, get it for us.

Amy E. Reichert: [00:22:01] I will. So this is it. Ayesha at Last, it is a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, which you’re, you know, you’re kind of like, oh, you don’t need another one. You do. It is set in the Toronto and it’s Toronto Muslim Community. So it has- It’s just a different twist. It’s a different twist and it’s beautifully written, so well done. And what I love about it as is it’s taking a very familiar story and familiar romantic tropes, but it’s setting in a community that a lot of us aren’t familiar with and you get to explore the joy in that community and the romance. And what I really found fascinating is because the main love interest is they’re both Muslim. They’re very chaste, but that doesn’t mean there’s not steam. And I kind of loved that. So I’m really excited. I actually have an event coming up with her in a couple of weeks, so I’m very excited. I’m gushing all over her. 

Rachael Herron: [00:23:07] That’s so cool. And that’s flying to the top of my TBR list. I had not heard of it. Oh, thank you very much, Ayesha at Last. Perfect. Now speaking of awesome books, why don’t you tell us a little bit about Kindred Spirits Supper Club? 

Amy E. Reichert: [00:23:19] So the Kindred Spirits, Supper Club is about Sabrina Monroe, who is forced to, for financial reasons, moved back in with her parents in the Wisconsin, Dells, where she grew up, which to her is the worst possible thing that could happen. And then she’s forced to face the figurative and literal ghosts of her past, her family. The women in her family can actually see spirits and to help them, the whole point is they help them move along to whatever come next. It’s not creepy at all. In fact, her best friend growing up was ghost Molly, who is a rom-com loving ghost, who is somebody they could never, they could never quite help. So she’s just become part of the family. And Molly is determined to help Sabrina find her happy ever after, since Molly did not get hers. Enter Ray, who is the new supper club owner in town. And he is intrigued by this sort of awkward and anxious woman and Molly decides this needs to happen and does some stuff. And yeah. So, yeah, it’s just sort of a sweet, romantic well story. 

Rachael Herron: [00:24:31] I cannot wait to read it. Your publicist got you in with me right at the last minute. So I haven’t read it yet, but, it’s on my Kindle and I was just looking at it online and it just looks like everything that I like to read. So thank you.

Amy E. Reichert: [00:24:42] I am just. You’re welcome. I love all my books, but I really do. I really love this book. 

Rachael Herron: [00:24:51] Your face gets mushy. When you talk about it, like you’re, I can see how much you love them. 

Amy E. Reichert: [00:24:56] I’m kind of mushy about them. 

Rachael Herron: [00:24:58] That’s awesome. That’s awesome. Okay. And where can we find you online? 

Amy E. Reichert: [00:25:03] Sorry, I had to hydrate. 

Rachael Herron: [00:25:05] Of course, that’s necessary. 

Amy E. Reichert: [00:25:07] You can find me online at my website, www.amyereichert.com, A-M-Y-E-R-E-I-C-H-E-R-T.com. And on there, you can subscribe to my newsletter, which I am about to do a major revamp of, you can also find me on Twitter. You can find the links to me to find me on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook from there. So yeah, I’m at Amy E. Reichert at most places. So yeah, I’m all over the place, right now I feel like I’m flooding the world with stuff.

Rachael Herron: [00:25:38] Thank you so much! Well, I’m always behind in my podcast, like I’ve got a bunch that need to come up before you, so this is going to be one of those later bumps in your release. So that’d be great.

Amy E. Reichert: [00:25:50] I am all for that. Extend it as long as possible. 

Rachael Herron: [00:25:54] Tell your publicist that when she’s like, where did Rachael’s podcasts go. Amy, it has been such a treat to talk to you. I’m so glad to meet you and know you and I can’t wait to read your book.

Amy E. Reichert: [00:26:03] Likewise. Thank you so much for having me on Rachael.

Rachael Herron: [00:26:05] Take care. Happy writing, bye!

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