Husky_Embrace
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When I started writing stories for myself I hit a big wall in the road. I had an idea where to go, but in my writing I already wanted to be there. It was like I wrote my characters on the road to the destination, but all roads were straight highways that were as short as possible. It had no personality. When I started to write in my phone I was forced to write slower, and the characters (themes, sub-story lines) got more attention. The roads became longer, and winded with the landscape to eventually arrive at the destination. Sometimes you get lost and arrive at a different destination, but that's okay.
Now I face a different challenge. I don't have writers block, but I block myself from writing. When my private life finally allows for writing time, I often don't take it. Ideas that I had go to waste in my head, forgetting things I imagined earlier for them.
That is why I'm thinking of a "page a day" challenge. The idea is to take a moment to write something, aiming at a page per day, more if inspired and less if that so happens to be the case. The rules are loose, except that you write every day something.
I imagine it can have two iterations. One is a series where each day is posted. It gives it a finality, where the raw idea is posted. You can agonise all day on it, changing and updating it, but at the end of the day it is posted in it's raw glory. I would most likely spend a week or two brainstorming over all the details before I start to write a page a day, but in the end you'll have something. A progress that can be good or bad, but progress all the same.
The other is to keep it to myself. Just write a page, and update any preceding part to make themes or developments more clear. When it's finished it'll be posted.
The first idea is more scary, but I feel it can be much more fun. A hit or miss, you know the story continues tomorrow.
Now I face a different challenge. I don't have writers block, but I block myself from writing. When my private life finally allows for writing time, I often don't take it. Ideas that I had go to waste in my head, forgetting things I imagined earlier for them.
That is why I'm thinking of a "page a day" challenge. The idea is to take a moment to write something, aiming at a page per day, more if inspired and less if that so happens to be the case. The rules are loose, except that you write every day something.
I imagine it can have two iterations. One is a series where each day is posted. It gives it a finality, where the raw idea is posted. You can agonise all day on it, changing and updating it, but at the end of the day it is posted in it's raw glory. I would most likely spend a week or two brainstorming over all the details before I start to write a page a day, but in the end you'll have something. A progress that can be good or bad, but progress all the same.
The other is to keep it to myself. Just write a page, and update any preceding part to make themes or developments more clear. When it's finished it'll be posted.
The first idea is more scary, but I feel it can be much more fun. A hit or miss, you know the story continues tomorrow.
