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Accountability, author's timecard, word count written, feeling lonely out there?
Reil:
--- Quote from: neurovore on June 25, 2010, 06:46:56 PM ---Are you writing daily ?
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Not aimed at me I know but no, I haven't... I, um... I'll get off the internet now.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Reil on June 28, 2010, 03:39:02 PM ---Not aimed at me I know but no, I haven't... I, um... I'll get off the internet now.
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Oh, I'm sorry; that was very much not meant as a critique. I do not write daily myself.
Reil:
--- Quote from: neurovore on June 28, 2010, 04:54:44 PM ---Oh, I'm sorry; that was very much not meant as a critique. I do not write daily myself.
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And I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply that it was. I understood it in the original context, it's just that it happened to highlight consistency, one of my major weak-points.
prophet224:
Amen brother (or sister, as the case may be). I really have a consistency problem. Much of that is not because I don't have lots to write, but because I feel guilty doing so. If I'm writing than I am not: cutting the grass, doing dishes, washing laundry, fixing the stinking downspouts, etc., or even just organizing the office, so I can feel like the area is uncluttered. If life is cluttered and my surroundings are cluttered than I feel cluttered and don't get much done.
When the wife was studying for her personal training exam, we would work at the same time, so neither had to feel guilty. :)
On a related note, I was re-reading Good Omens recently and read through the afterword(s). One note was that when Terry Pratchett wrote "The Colour of Magic", he did it at 400 words per day. This tells me that 'any momentum is good momentum'. Unless perhaps it is associated with a large slug of <insert any object type here> going at relativistic velocities towards your home world. But anyway...
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: prophet224 on June 28, 2010, 06:35:46 PM ---On a related note, I was re-reading Good Omens recently and read through the afterword(s). One note was that when Terry Pratchett wrote "The Colour of Magic", he did it at 400 words per day.
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I've seen Pterry at conventions. You leave him alone for thirty seconds and he's writing. Ability to be productive in so busy a context is a great gift, but it's definitely not one I have.
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