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The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc
Lord Rae:
yeah I know... two twelve hour overnight shifts at work this weekend should be the perfect way to do that... but I've only got about an hour left of tonight's shift and I've done everything to procrastinate that I can think of including some actual work... heh but man the hardest thing about coming back to it is that in reading the first chapters again I hate it and want to change it all.
I've done that before and I'm not eager to rewrite all that again especially knowing that's the wrong way to go if I ever want to finish. But I do hate it especially seeing all the flaws I had going through it last time. Just gotta push through...
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Paynesgrey on November 25, 2012, 08:26:47 AM ---A brutal truth: You probably have to sit down and make yourself knock out a few hundred words. I've found that to be the only thing that worked when I had a period of time when I "didn't feel inspired"
Can't get around dry spells, you have to go and just drive through them.
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Having multiple projects going has worked for me as a way around that, fwiw. Haven't yet been blocked on everything at once.
I'm always a little wary of "push through"-type advice because I've seen successful published writers irrevocably screw up WiPs and be unable to finish them because of trying to push through something that needed to be mulled on more first.
Paynesgrey:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on November 25, 2012, 05:00:06 PM ---Having multiple projects going has worked for me as a way around that, fwiw. Haven't yet been blocked on everything at once.
I'm always a little wary of "push through"-type advice because I've seen successful published writers irrevocably screw up WiPs and be unable to finish them because of trying to push through something that needed to be mulled on more first.
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Yeah, I should throw in a "mileage may vary." I'll stop for a few days for research and such, I definitely aren't saying "write every day whether you feel up to it or not." But when I realized I haven't touched it for two or three days, I sit down and make myself at least hammer some work out.
For me, "Pushing through" probably works so well simply because I've got the entire story arc, along with several milestones mapped out already though, so I know where I'm going and it's usually case of working on the "boring" stuff between the last Exciting Cool Scene and the Next Exciting Cool Scene I've already imagined and simmered in my head for a while. And once I sit down and do a couple hundred words of work, it usually turns to play when I'm not looking.
Usually, for me the biggest problem is getting started. It's like a restaurant you really like but just don't feel like getting out of your pajamas and getting dressed to go to. But once you're there, it's just dandy and you're thinking "Damn! I should have come here yesterday...."
Kael Tucker:
Wow, I envy all of you, sincerely. The ability to get a story, that you have nurtured from a small nugget and put it on the Written page is nothing short of miraculious. Good, bad or ugly... you managed to write about it, and I raise a toast to your success. " To the Hundreds of Stories Witten, and the Thousands lost to Time"
trboturtle:
--- Quote from: THE_ANGRY_GAMER on November 24, 2012, 09:53:16 PM ---Just finished the NaNo 50,000 words. Actual wordcount is now at 56,667.
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I've also hit the 50,000 word mark in the NaNo -- right now, it's 50,220 words.
Craig
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