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The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc
misterjonez:
The hardest thing for most people to remember, in my experience, is that writing is a creative activity. As such, it is wholly subjective regarding the 'right' or 'wrong' way to go about it, therefore success is measured only in the production and quality of your product.
Now, the quality of a given piece of art is largely in the eye of the beholder. But production and completion are objectively measurable. Most of the advice I see on forums/blogs/message boards like this is offered in an attempt to encourage production and completion, more than anything else.
It's great to see how many different styles of production are represented here. One of my favorite authors talks about locking himself in a room, pulling eighteen hour days until he's done. Another fave has fifteen or twenty stories in production at once, and flits from one leaf to another until he's satisfied with the work on a given project, at which time he releases it.
Best summed up as above: Do what works for you. Just keep an open mind to the possibility that yours is not the best, or only way;-)
trboturtle:
2500 words so far this week, spread out over sevaral short stories. Finished one Short story, cycling through the other stories I'm working on, but really need to get back to my UF novels, trying to get in the writing grrove on them before November so I can get number three started.
Craig
Aminar:
I've been averaging 1500 words a day on my newest short story project. I can write in this particular character quite quickly and fluently. It's a nice change of pace from the slow progress I'm used to.
Paynesgrey:
2200 words over the last 3 days. Not as much as I'd like to have done, but it's progress.
Snowleopard:
Yeaaaaaaahhhhh, does Kermit the Frog armwave for PG.
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