RE: Weekly Writing: Sign up!
05-09-2012, 09:09 PM
I'm a little worried that people might forget about this, or that I might cross the line from gentle reminders over into nagging.
If you're on the list and having trouble remembering about it, let me know and I'll send a PM around every Wednesday or so.
MEANWHILE! Here's what I wrote last week, followed by some overall thoughts on what I've been writing.
Sunday: Just The Facts update.
Monday: Consistency update.
Tuesday: First draft of a future GB character profile.
Wednesday: Short and nonsensical poem, began working on a new version of the above character profile, wrote Tamerlane/Syvex fanfiction.
Thursday: Finished character profile.
Friday: Silly story with the basics suggested by Malky.
Saturday: First draft of a Savage Brawl post.
Overall thoughts - this was actually not that productive a week for me; I updated two of my sillier adventures, spent three days on a profile, wrote a silly story, wrote silly fanfiction, and started on a post then ended up scrapping more than half of it the next day.
But the end result of that profile was something I was really pleased with, and I look forward to using the character; and the SB post draft did at least get me moving along, and I think the parts of it I scrapped help me to narrow my focus on other details.
I do feel this week is a decent example of how broadly I define "writing", though; if I work on a single thing for two days, as long as I make significant progress on each of the days, I'm good with counting it for both of them.
And sometimes I write nonsense and it isn't even particularly good nonsense. In terms of standards, I wrote the poem on Wednesday first, thought "nah, that's not enough", then I tried to work on the profile. I think I actually made some progress, but not that much; hard to remember at this point. The silly fanfic was good enough for me to say "okay, I did a decent amount of writing today".
I don't have a hard and fast rule on this, but I do try to write, and I try to write things I enjoy at the very least. Sometimes I don't quite manage that, usually because I'm particularly uninspired, it's nearing the end of the day, and I can't even string nonsense together in a way that works for me.
Just sharing my experiences here; again, if other people have commentary on how they feel this is going for them overall, or things that they found helped them to write, feel free to post them in here!
If you're on the list and having trouble remembering about it, let me know and I'll send a PM around every Wednesday or so.
MEANWHILE! Here's what I wrote last week, followed by some overall thoughts on what I've been writing.
Sunday: Just The Facts update.
Monday: Consistency update.
Tuesday: First draft of a future GB character profile.
Wednesday: Short and nonsensical poem, began working on a new version of the above character profile, wrote Tamerlane/Syvex fanfiction.
Thursday: Finished character profile.
Friday: Silly story with the basics suggested by Malky.
Saturday: First draft of a Savage Brawl post.
Overall thoughts - this was actually not that productive a week for me; I updated two of my sillier adventures, spent three days on a profile, wrote a silly story, wrote silly fanfiction, and started on a post then ended up scrapping more than half of it the next day.
But the end result of that profile was something I was really pleased with, and I look forward to using the character; and the SB post draft did at least get me moving along, and I think the parts of it I scrapped help me to narrow my focus on other details.
I do feel this week is a decent example of how broadly I define "writing", though; if I work on a single thing for two days, as long as I make significant progress on each of the days, I'm good with counting it for both of them.
And sometimes I write nonsense and it isn't even particularly good nonsense. In terms of standards, I wrote the poem on Wednesday first, thought "nah, that's not enough", then I tried to work on the profile. I think I actually made some progress, but not that much; hard to remember at this point. The silly fanfic was good enough for me to say "okay, I did a decent amount of writing today".
I don't have a hard and fast rule on this, but I do try to write, and I try to write things I enjoy at the very least. Sometimes I don't quite manage that, usually because I'm particularly uninspired, it's nearing the end of the day, and I can't even string nonsense together in a way that works for me.
Just sharing my experiences here; again, if other people have commentary on how they feel this is going for them overall, or things that they found helped them to write, feel free to post them in here!