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Post by jklinders on Oct 17, 2010 2:09:37 GMT 1
Good advice, I already play music appropriate to the theme I am writing as inspiration. I'll try to have less of an opinion on my work as I'm writing it. Thing is I want to keep what standards I have up so I have to be a little critical. I just didn't know what to do with that scene but felt it was important to put a bridge in there for the next one which I do have a clear idea of. Bah!! I just have a lot more fun with it when I know what the Hell I'm doing. Alcohol will help.
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Post by Battlechantress on Oct 17, 2010 3:03:54 GMT 1
I started using this tactic a few weeks ago and it seems to help (this is purely a "your mileage may vary" suggestion, BTW): just type whatever you were planning on writing for 30-45 minutes straight. Give yourself a 10 minute break. If you absolutely HAVE to, go back up and edit if you feel you need to, but only for those ten minutes. Then keep going (start writing again) for another 30-45 minutes. The key thing is to just keep writing and worry less about editing. (Or try to. ) Sometimes I do ignore this advice (most notably when I wrote "Hannah's Demise", but I'll occasionally do the same thing for my 100words and 750words.com entries) and just keep typing until I get near the end. I find I *have* to do it like this or I'll just lose steam and the story will wither. I plan on doing this for NaNoWriMo because I know that's the only way I'll be able to get my daily word quotas done. Another thing I learned from other NaNo writers today: it's sometimes better to just keep writing and see where the story goes than worry too much about if what you're writing is still true to what you intended to write. (That also proved true for "Hannah's Demise" and even "Bad Night...", incidentally.) And just as an aside: your Inner Editor sounds an awful lot like mine.
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Post by Battlechantress on Oct 17, 2010 3:07:37 GMT 1
When im actually writing, things seem to go well, the ideas flow out faster than the editor can knock them down. the problem comes later, especially if the story/chapter doesn't receive any attention from other people, ill go back and read it and think to myself 'this part was hokey' or 'that was out of character' or 'this section just doesn't work like i wanted it to.' It tends to be WAY over harsh, with my inner editor trying to tear it all to pieces. It makes it painful to the point that i don't want to read stuff after I've written it. : ( Ok, enough whining, back to work. Cant believe i didn't see this thread til now lol... Yeah, I think quite a few of us can relate to that feeling too. I used to freak out about not getting reviews on ff.net and fictionpress because I thought if I wasn't getting reviews, then my stuff HAD to be awful. I still deal with that insecurity, but at least now I figure if I'm not getting hate mail for what I write then at least I'm not writing anything *that* bad.
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