Weekly Writing: Sign up!
04-29-2012, 10:52 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-12-2013, 04:16 AM by Dragon Fogel.)
So I was thinking about how there are people who have trouble writing things in a timely manner, and how I try to write every day.
It occurred to me that while not everyone has the time I do to manage writing something every day, once a week seems pretty reasonable.
And so, I'm starting, well, I guess it's a club of sorts. Basically, you sign on and declare that you're going to aim to write something every week.
You can also make goals other than that, and be more concrete about what the writing will be! That's cool too. Maybe you're really busy but you still think you can manage to write something once a month; maybe you're like me and are eager to write something every day. Or maybe you've always wanted to write a novel and you've decided to say "I'll write three paragraphs for it every week". All of these are cool! I just think "write something once a week" is a good starting point if you want to try to be more disciplined about it.
Essentially, this is a personal development thing that may also help people with chronic Procrastinating On Writing issues. Feel free to declare your interest here, state your personal goal, and maybe post the occasional thing you produce. (Or you can make your own thread for that, and link to it here! That's also good.)
So, to start this thing off: As I've noted, I try to write something every day. This may be a GB post, an update for a relatively text-heavy adventure, a script for one of the adventures I work with artists on (and am grateful for their efforts), a character profile, or if none of those seem to suit my mood at the time, just a random story. Sometimes it's serious, sometimes it's not. A few times I just get completely stumped and slap something together that I don't even like, but I feel that writing regularly has helped me to get writing done when I need to.
I'm going to work on keeping this up.
List of people signing up and goals
It occurred to me that while not everyone has the time I do to manage writing something every day, once a week seems pretty reasonable.
And so, I'm starting, well, I guess it's a club of sorts. Basically, you sign on and declare that you're going to aim to write something every week.
You can also make goals other than that, and be more concrete about what the writing will be! That's cool too. Maybe you're really busy but you still think you can manage to write something once a month; maybe you're like me and are eager to write something every day. Or maybe you've always wanted to write a novel and you've decided to say "I'll write three paragraphs for it every week". All of these are cool! I just think "write something once a week" is a good starting point if you want to try to be more disciplined about it.
Essentially, this is a personal development thing that may also help people with chronic Procrastinating On Writing issues. Feel free to declare your interest here, state your personal goal, and maybe post the occasional thing you produce. (Or you can make your own thread for that, and link to it here! That's also good.)
So, to start this thing off: As I've noted, I try to write something every day. This may be a GB post, an update for a relatively text-heavy adventure, a script for one of the adventures I work with artists on (and am grateful for their efforts), a character profile, or if none of those seem to suit my mood at the time, just a random story. Sometimes it's serious, sometimes it's not. A few times I just get completely stumped and slap something together that I don't even like, but I feel that writing regularly has helped me to get writing done when I need to.
I'm going to work on keeping this up.
List of people signing up and goals
- Dragon Fogel: At least one piece of writing each day.
- Solaris: Write two things a week, one of them decently long.
- SleepingOrange: Write one GB post a week.
- PickYerPoison: Write something every week.
- cyber95: Write a haiku every week.
- XX and Godbot: One post a week each.
- btp: 1000 words for a single work in a week.
- Garuru: Write something at least once a week.