Post Aa8ooHm7oT5CUFIZge by marquesedliddle@www.minds.com
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(DIR) Post #Aa7zVaHRgwyEiPH1jE by antonyobeara@www.minds.com
2023-09-25T13:41:59+00:00
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I think that no matter how carefully I write, people are still going to miss important details that will affect their enjoyment of the story. If I beat them over the head with an explanation inside the story, I'll get a "show don't tell" critique, but if I do not, I will be told that the story stopped making sense after the plot point missed by the reader. Either way, there will be criticism. So, I figure that the correct course is to just tell the story in whatever way feels most entertaining and effective to me and not worry about it.
(DIR) Post #Aa7zVjp6DCEoJO5Wvw by johnadouglas@www.minds.com
2023-09-25T14:03:43+00:00
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No matter how much I write, I just seem to have this ingrained grammar and punctuation system that defies logic. Prolly cause I didn’t take an English lit course
(DIR) Post #Aa7zWtEkhHwdnVdWHA by marquesedliddle@www.minds.com
2023-09-25T14:03:43+00:00
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Rate of production.While free-writing helps me be more consistent, I can't get more than 1,500 words a day no matter what I do.I've thought a lot about why this might be and have come to a few conclusions.Part of it might be natural ability. Sometimes I suspect I am making my monkey brain do something it is not evolved to do.The more certain reason is my desire to compose "well." Without assuming my fiction is actually well-written, I can say that there is a standard of style which I feel compelled to strive for whenever I'm writing. To do otherwise feels sacrilege, like I'm sinning against the artform or some other pretentious-sounding thing.
(DIR) Post #Aa84FLnQH9OYvlJEfY by twicesix@www.minds.com
2023-09-25T14:18:02+00:00
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Subject matter. I want to write dark, yet uplifting stories.I can put in a good effort to write fiction about some purely nihilistic, deteriorating environment filled with defeatist undertones, but it's ultimately going to fall flat because it's not a story I would want to read. Likewise I can write a purely upbeat and overwhelmingly optimistic narrative, but it wouldn't come across as authentic because it's not something that I would buy into as a reader.Times are dark now, but things can be fixed if we're willing to sacrifice to make them so. And that's the essence of what I write.
(DIR) Post #Aa84FPGbN7WBh7z54C by molly_b@www.minds.com
2023-09-25T14:41:36+00:00
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At the moment—my health. Hard to write consistently when in the throes of an ulcerative colitis flare-up and I’m either on the toilet or in bed asleep because I can’t get any energy from what I eat. I’m so close to the end of a story tooSO CLOSE
(DIR) Post #Aa84GySg0JoR8fNar2 by synthnostate@www.minds.com
2023-09-25T14:13:27+00:00
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The language. I'm sure I _could_ write decent or funny stuff in a foreign language (and my mistakes could be charming) but English is so common there's no need. When/if I do, it's more likely to be in a dead or fictional language, or just snippets of ethnic characters shouting common insults in French, Spanish, Chinese, etc.
(DIR) Post #Aa84HA6Qir9DF93zqS by twicesix@www.minds.com
2023-09-25T14:24:01+00:00
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Have you tried writing sprints? To break it down by numbers: 30 words per minute is my magic number while doing sprints. That's 1500 words per hour after built-in breaks. 30 words per minute is a decent pace, look up on Youtube someone typing 30-40 words per minute. Extremely manageable.I use the pomodoro method, 25 minutes of work, 5 minutes of rest. Do four of these, 2 hours, that's 3000 words. Every pair of sprints completed is another 1500 words. 7 sprints is 5000 words, that's 3 and a half hours of work total.I use a spreadsheet to measure and calculate all of this. Let me know if you want to try the spreadsheet or maybe do some shared sprint work to get into the groove. It's doable, just requires a bit of practice and determination.
(DIR) Post #Aa84HFljei9uohQYQC by asihart@www.minds.com
2023-09-25T14:14:55+00:00
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To beat NaNo you need ~1600 a day.I've gotten more than 3000 more than once. Normally it's more like 300.If I do anything, that is. t is a small wonder how prolific I actually am.
(DIR) Post #Aa8onaUEl6DyEJbBKq by marquesedliddle@www.minds.com
2023-09-25T16:32:41+00:00
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@twicesix I understand the utility, but my problem isn't content related, it is composition related. It's not that a need for correct grammar is slowly a stream of content so much as the composition itself is just as important to me as the content.I literally have to pitch the entire quickly written sections and rewrite them, and it takes just as long.
(DIR) Post #Aa8onf8nSF2qfGbd6u by palmettohorse@www.minds.com
2023-09-25T23:17:23+00:00
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Good question. I think for me, it is financial stress effecting the writing. With my mind focused on bills, my brain shuts down on writing. I've done some sketching, but the writing has basically grounded to a halt to where I'm going over old incomplete fanfictions to alter for inspiration, and even then it is nothing special. I haven't even worked on episode 11 of Hobo Warrior Bunny or Aarde Part 2 or Winter 9. I figured once the financial strain is over I'll get something, but it'll be nice to have the financial stress resolved before NaNoWriMo.
(DIR) Post #Aa8oni8YJbdFxNVye8 by authorbrookeshaffer@www.minds.com
2023-09-25T23:00:44+00:00
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Production costs. POD is going to kill me. My audience is just large enough that I need to start looking into larger runs in order to realistically meet demands, in terms of stock and cost effectiveness, but it's too small to fork over $8k for a first run. ($8k for 1k books, best value)
(DIR) Post #Aa8onnezmPYR5RjSPQ by NSonic79@www.minds.com
2023-09-25T17:25:09+00:00
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For some reason I can only write at night. If I try to force it during the day it’s garbage.
(DIR) Post #Aa8onvcoAQYfmylp6u by catalyticcomics@www.minds.com
2023-09-25T17:04:47+00:00
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While producing the comic, both budget and a need to market led us to write intermediate releases between full books.The way we worked it out is to have opening scenes that serve as ashcans. Which makes for a fun challenge in non-linear storytelling.There's also cover questions. The first book we wanted to do characters in a fire diamond, and it worked out that we could fuzz the two characters that don't appear in the ashcan. Maybe we'll do character portraits or variants in future books, we'll see.
(DIR) Post #Aa8onwhSAdrt7fx2zQ by asihart@www.minds.com
2023-09-25T15:49:13+00:00
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@marquesedliddle I finished NaNo a few times. Can't anymore, due to work.I usually have 12 hour shifts in November. Didn't use to...But yeah, this is more about persistence.
(DIR) Post #Aa8oo1f9ic08VzumbQ by scribbles_n_bits@www.minds.com
2023-09-25T16:06:58+00:00
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Right now my biggest hurdle is pacing. We tend to get lost in the course of the larger manuscripts, especially at the novice level.
(DIR) Post #Aa8oo9zIlaryKnOz7A by lordjestocost@www.minds.com
2023-09-25T19:52:34+00:00
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Don't really know. The biggest hurdle I have to overcome is my own laziness. I look forward to Saturday morning writing sessions at my favorite coffee shop, but rarely carve out time during the week.
(DIR) Post #Aa8ooC6StvmutaljYe by marquesedliddle@www.minds.com
2023-09-25T15:42:02+00:00
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I haven't tried sprints, though I imagine I'd stop "sprinting" because I'd want to search for the word that either rhymes, forms some repeated sound, or else contains some double figurative and literal meaning.And then there is sentence structure. I can't write the next sentence if I don't like how the on before measured out. If there are extra or too few syllables, or if the stressed syllables don't flow well, I will rework the sentence and the one before it until it sounds right at the time.The best I can get at speed is something akin to an outline in paragraph form. I do that sometimes when I free-write, but I don't consider it prose really so much as notes. It's almost entirely music-less discursion.
(DIR) Post #Aa8ooHm7oT5CUFIZge by marquesedliddle@www.minds.com
2023-09-25T15:44:15+00:00
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NaNoWriMo would definitely beat me and not the other way around.I'd try it out if I could spare the time, be I'm so slow that it would cost an entire month of workdays for me.300 a day still writes a book. Persistence is more important than speed, I think.
(DIR) Post #Aa8ooODzpkwUUQNuxk by twicesix@www.minds.com
2023-09-25T16:05:17+00:00
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@marquesedliddle The key with sprints and free writing is to get into the flow of letting the story come out despite the imperfection of the grammar that it flows from. There's no sense in editing it in place if you're going to come back later and do the same thing, but with more perspective. That's the objective with free writing is to disable the editor and just let words come out. Sort of like horse blinders, focus on one thing and move in one direction. Once the internal desire to change things in place is suppressed, then sprinting becomes easier and output increases.
(DIR) Post #Aa940W0sCXpjQrUE7s by sugarthyme@www.minds.com
2023-09-26T02:24:08+00:00
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Time, I suppose, because I have to be a responsible adult and work. However, when I'm ready to write something, I always find the time I need, so it hasn't really held me back.
(DIR) Post #AaC9Rtp8rcXYLNkwe8 by tj_vista@www.minds.com
2023-09-26T03:34:11+00:00
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I have various ideas on my stories but don't know how to start them off. Not only that, due to my fiancial situation, it's not easy to catch up on my writing while dealing with money problems, aside from fatigue from busy work days.
(DIR) Post #AaCQ4VvXFCjAn0BIsS by the_edgy_penguin@www.minds.com
2023-09-27T15:58:58+00:00
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I’d probably say length. I notice I tend to write scenes that are too long and sometimes don’t realize how long they are until someone else points it out. Once someone does that, I go back and cut them down, and even then, sometimes I worry that they are still too lengthy.Another I’d say is the characters, sometimes I feel like a DM in DnD where I have places I want them to go, but the way they get to it is not how I initially intended it. When that happens I then have to decide if I want to keep it that way or modify it and if so by how much.There was actually an example in Renegades. A minor character who wasn’t meant to do much besides treat the protagonists' injuries ended up doing a lot more and had more interactions with the group. Sadly I did cut their unplanned backstory because it contradicted some lore and wasn’t a plot point I planned to explore.