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Originally Posted by jaxx6166
Wyldkit and Pshrynk are starting to make me jealous =/
Congrats to you guys. I'm super excited for you!!
Now if only I can get this mood write (pun intended)
I'm being a stickler on my words here and it's not going too well. I tried to turn them off and that didn't work either! It's just - I want to get this scene the way it should be. Everything else is flowing well. Maybe I need to go back and reimagine this place.
I think I'm trying to make it too normal in a world that just won't allow it.
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The only other long writing I've done was research papers way back in college and grad school, and I would finish a page every two hours or so (that, after having already completed all of the research). I was pretty convinced that 50K in a month was an impossibility for me. I have had to just completely stop caring about the inner editor. Every time I hit something that would have stalled me in the past (naming a new character, rethinking a plot arc), I just keep writing. And I have found that my writing is actually improving quite a bit because of it. At least I think so; I haven't reread most of it yet. I just keep telling myself that there's nothing that can't be fixed in edits later. If I had a scene I couldn't get right, I would just skip past it and rethink it later. I know that's hard to do sometimes though!
My motto this month is a paraphrase of Dory in
Finding Nemo: "Just keep writing, just keep writing..."
I think everyone's doing great, though! Some genres just write themselves more quickly than others.