Monday Check In

[peachpai]

It's a gross, gray day where I am, with a bunch of wet snow...and that means I feel like doing approximately nothing save for moping around the house.

Today's discussion, if you're feeling chatty: Does your motivation to write change seasonally or with the weather? What's your strategy for getting past the block?


And how's writing going today?

-Did you write some words?
-Did you think about how to write some words?
-Did you decide to take a completely valid and well-earned day off?
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Comments

[frogfarm]

Taking a quick break from writing, which is going well. Have an upcoming crucial action scene, which I brainstormed the mechanics of last night with a good friend. That was both fun and productive, and I look forward to more insights from them over the next few days as I hopefully get closer to that scene.

I don't know what the difference is between now and then, but in the past I ended up abandoning an ambitious long-term fic project that would have totalled somewhere north of two million words -- each virtual episode was at least twenty thousand words and I wanted five full seasons of 22 episodes each. And the only reason I abandoned it was because it was taking me too long to write. For whatever reasons, I've been cranking out the word count these past few years like never before, and I'm just trying to do everything I can to keep it going. So at least part of it is seriously buckling down more often and telling myself to just get it done. Which again, for whatever reasons, is working a lot better than it used to. Maybe I just wasn't telling myself seriously enough. Anyway, thankfully this doesn't appear to be seasonal...

[peachpai]

I have to give you ALL THE KUDOS for writing over 2 million words. That's a massive accomplishment even if you don't finish it!

[frogfarm]

I did manage to finish eight episodes plus prequel material, totaling just over 250,000 words. Even if it wasn't finished, there's some great stuff there, and I learned a lot from it that I'm applying to my more productive current sessions.

[peachpai]

That's awesome! I totally get that sometimes ambitious projects are more valuable as learning experiences than finished pieces. I've definitely made a conscious decision to not finish stuff like that when it wasn't working for me and still felt it was a good experience.