Things that are still writing even if you don't think they are (an incomplete list)
- thinking about a story
- creating a new document
- brainstorming
- researching
- thinking of a title
- explaining your story to someone else
- reading other stories and noticing things like word choice, sentence structure, plot development, characterization
- thinking of a great line that doesn't have a story yet
- getting a picture in your mind that you want to put into words someday
- being inspired by others, even if you don't know what to do with that inspiration yet
- making notes about how you want to tag your work
- editing
- cutting out lines or scenes that don't work
- stopping work on something that isn't working right now
- starting over
- writing a summary
- rewriting something you've written before
Writing is a process, not a product
