Post by account_disabled on Jan 5, 2024 20:06:56 GMT -8
Even though I often talk about rules here, the rules are too strict for me. I am a semi-anarchist who loves order and respect for the laws. Contradictions that are part of my personality. One of the rules I often read about writing is to set a certain number of words to write per day. There are those who write 500 words in a day and those who write 2000. At the moment I have already exceeded 1800, but it is not a rule. I don't know if I could write 2,000 words of fiction a day. Maybe, when I wrote on paper, I also did it. Indeed, this is certainly the case. But, as I wrote before, there was no computer, there was good paper with ballpoint pen. My novel is progressing even though I haven't written any more words. I had to revisit the project because there were some unclear points. I deleted 3 chapters, so the novel went backwards, in a way. But almost every day I revisit that project and answer the questions I wrote down.
I solve the problems that the story had, even if each question often gives rise to others. This too is writing, this too is creative writing. Too many limits, too many impositions do not make writing easier , they slow it down, if anything. So write as long as you can write. If today you write 4000 words, that's fine, if tomorrow you only write 80, that's fine too. The novel proceeds anyway. Avoid too many pauses in writing Does it make sense to start writing a novel today and pick it up again in two months? No, it has none for me. You risk Special Data losing passion , stimulation, concentration and desire, above all. When I wrote short stories by hand, I would start writing and only stop when I had to do something else. The stories ended, they overlapped one another, they were not unfinished like many projects I have now. I decided not to carry out more than one at a time, nor to take long breaks in the work. Those four months of writing were continuous, at most I stopped at the weekend, the only period in which I almost never write. Long pauses take us away from the book we are writing . They even make us forget it. It happened to me: entire weeks without picking up the novel again and in the end it had left my mind.
Make the most of your available time Having two hours of freedom to write and using them to wander around the internet and then just writing a little sentence makes no sense. That's two hours wasted. Better then to concentrate for half an hour and write. Write seriously. The time available, as almost everyone says, is short. We are all happy with the great technological innovations that have simplified our lives, but have taken more time out of our day. Strange, isn't it? The secret, then, is to focus on increasing productivity . Making the little time we have available a true treasure: a time that must bear fruit , which must make us produce and not wander around without achieving anything. One of the reasons I turn off the computer around 6.30pm is because I'm no longer productive after that. From that hour until 7.30pm or later I did nothing but wander the web, from one social network to another, from one blog to another, but in fact I read nothing, I wrote nothing, I learned nothing. I was just wasting time.
I solve the problems that the story had, even if each question often gives rise to others. This too is writing, this too is creative writing. Too many limits, too many impositions do not make writing easier , they slow it down, if anything. So write as long as you can write. If today you write 4000 words, that's fine, if tomorrow you only write 80, that's fine too. The novel proceeds anyway. Avoid too many pauses in writing Does it make sense to start writing a novel today and pick it up again in two months? No, it has none for me. You risk Special Data losing passion , stimulation, concentration and desire, above all. When I wrote short stories by hand, I would start writing and only stop when I had to do something else. The stories ended, they overlapped one another, they were not unfinished like many projects I have now. I decided not to carry out more than one at a time, nor to take long breaks in the work. Those four months of writing were continuous, at most I stopped at the weekend, the only period in which I almost never write. Long pauses take us away from the book we are writing . They even make us forget it. It happened to me: entire weeks without picking up the novel again and in the end it had left my mind.
Make the most of your available time Having two hours of freedom to write and using them to wander around the internet and then just writing a little sentence makes no sense. That's two hours wasted. Better then to concentrate for half an hour and write. Write seriously. The time available, as almost everyone says, is short. We are all happy with the great technological innovations that have simplified our lives, but have taken more time out of our day. Strange, isn't it? The secret, then, is to focus on increasing productivity . Making the little time we have available a true treasure: a time that must bear fruit , which must make us produce and not wander around without achieving anything. One of the reasons I turn off the computer around 6.30pm is because I'm no longer productive after that. From that hour until 7.30pm or later I did nothing but wander the web, from one social network to another, from one blog to another, but in fact I read nothing, I wrote nothing, I learned nothing. I was just wasting time.