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Wrting advice and planning
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matociquala, don't worry, you're probably not doing it wrong. She says lots of wise things, but I liked this:
"if you consistently find yourself pausing a third of the way into the book to rearrange the first hundred pages, and then moving on, that's okay. It's fine. Go ahead and do it."
I do this all the time with stories: start them and then about a third or halfway through have to stop and reconsider everything. It's always do it with a sense of guilt, like I should've thought things through better before I started. But hoorah! It's okay! I don't have to feel guilty any more.
It makes me feel a bit better about the pile of unfinished stories where I got confused about halfway through, then got too guilty about my failure to plot properly and gave up. It's not plotting that's a problem, it's allowing myself time to think things through and to tell the story how I want to tell it.
emungere showed me this cool to-do list site called remember the milk. My fic to do list is a little bit scary, but I whittled it down. Prioritised for the coming month:
1. Saiyuki livelongandmarry story
2. Fedal holiday exchange story
3. Rafa's diary
4. Vampiro!
5. To be confirmed
matociquala, don't worry, you're probably not doing it wrong. She says lots of wise things, but I liked this:"if you consistently find yourself pausing a third of the way into the book to rearrange the first hundred pages, and then moving on, that's okay. It's fine. Go ahead and do it."
I do this all the time with stories: start them and then about a third or halfway through have to stop and reconsider everything. It's always do it with a sense of guilt, like I should've thought things through better before I started. But hoorah! It's okay! I don't have to feel guilty any more.
It makes me feel a bit better about the pile of unfinished stories where I got confused about halfway through, then got too guilty about my failure to plot properly and gave up. It's not plotting that's a problem, it's allowing myself time to think things through and to tell the story how I want to tell it.
emungere showed me this cool to-do list site called remember the milk. My fic to do list is a little bit scary, but I whittled it down. Prioritised for the coming month:1. Saiyuki livelongandmarry story
2. Fedal holiday exchange story
3. Rafa's diary
4. Vampiro!
5. To be confirmed
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I've decided that my
I've decided that my <i<>everything</i> style is akin to an octopus/cheetah hybrid going hunting. No, really. I'll be a big lazy feline layabout until I really, <i>really</i> need to get stuff done. Then I'll dash about at 90mph and do 8 things at once. Then I'll fall over.
I like being told not to write every day unless I want to, though.
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Some people need to have deadlines to get anything done at all. I think I'm the same as you, basically, except that by sheer habit and long practise I've managed to actually finish things before deadlines. Sometimes.
You will forever be octopus/cheetah in my brain now.