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The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Aminar on August 22, 2012, 02:34:15 AM ---It is important to remember that while learning you should write every day.
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You know, the whole point of my post was to emphatically take the position that this statement is wrong. There are people for whom forcing words every day is actively harmful. There are people whose lives cannot be rearranged to write every day. Saying things like that can read as setting barriers to people still figuring out their own processes.
Also, "while learning" ? Do you actually intend to stop learning at any point ? I don't.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: The Deposed King on August 22, 2012, 04:19:12 AM ---Sounds like good advice and a successful model to me. Albeit one slightly focused on traditional publishing as the winning route.
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Indeed, that's definitely where my focus is.
cenwolfgirl:
is there not a DF quote about stop learning start dying ?
also i would love to see people who have the time to write everyday
there lives must be so quiet
*is agreeing with neuro*
The Deposed King:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on August 22, 2012, 01:07:11 PM ---You know, the whole point of my post was to emphatically take the position that this statement is wrong. There are people for whom forcing words every day is actively harmful. There are people whose lives cannot be rearranged to write every day. Saying things like that can read as setting barriers to people still figuring out their own processes.
Also, "while learning" ? Do you actually intend to stop learning at any point ? I don't.
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80/20 principle anyone? Advice works for 80% but leaves the rest of the special butterflies out in the cold. As with everything moderation, including moderation in moderation.
There are a couple authors that as a reader I would have gladly flash frozen in a certain stage of their development and refused to let them learn anything new. Sometimes it seems all they learn are new and exciting ways to ruin what was so great.
As far as I see it, writing every day is a great goal. Writing every day you have leisure time is a better one. But like with sports sometimes you need a break if you are going to heal up and get ready to push through to the next level.
That said this advice is what empires are made out of. But if you look at say, Einstine this advice is also the kind that almost squelched one of the greatest minds of any era in history and deprived us of one of the greatest mathmaticians there ever was. A quandry. Do we force success at the expense of some of our potential greatness or do we let it all hang out and possibly end up like the gauls. Crushed under the might of an organized machine. Alternately we could be like the greeks, vitally crucial to the efforts of the organized machine, forever slightly stuck outside it, and harnessed to its purposes. Yet for all of that free to each of us go in our own direction.
Back to the point. Do what works for you. However if nothing is working then try this. If that doesn't work try this other one instead. Eventually you'll find something that works or you'll move on.
Have a blast,
The Deposed King
cenwolfgirl:
--- Quote --- Do what works for you.
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is it me but this line apares from many people in many threads in many forms
;D
i is perfect and so very true
(i have now got time to write give me a few hours i might actualy have a posertive word count)
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