Margins and Head-Games

[bashfullyshameless]

I realize it's dumb, but I do it anyway. I write on MS Word, and every time I write a line that reaches all the way from the left margin to the right, using up exactly the amount of space offered, I get hung up on making sure I don't have to change it.

I know it's silly. It won't look like that as a Lit page, or as a published e-book or whatever I'm gonna do with the given story, but I do it anyway.

I also try to hold myself to a minimum expectation of 1000 words a day. There is no penalty other than frustration. There is no reward other than feeling like I've held the line against procrastination.

Anyone else play silly head games with themselves regarding their writing?


...tell me it's not just me. Please?

 

[Handley_Page]

I realize it's dumb, but I do it anyway. I write on MS Word, and every time I write a line that reaches all the way from the left margin to the right, using up exactly the amount of space offered, I get hung up on making sure I don't have to change it.

I know it's silly. It won't look like that as a Lit page, or as a published e-book or whatever I'm gonna do with the given story, but I do it anyway.

I also try to hold myself to a minimum expectation of 1000 words a day. There is no penalty other than frustration. There is no reward other than feeling like I've held the line against procrastination.

Anyone else play silly head games with themselves regarding their writing?


...tell me it's not just me. Please?

No, but in my case it is often paragraphs.

 

[TxRad]

Your lines end at the edge of the page. I keep getting that one word that dangles all by itself at the end of a paragraph. Then I drive myself crazy trying to either get rid of it or add more words.

Copy a page from several of your stories from Lit back to word and see what you get for margins. Also check and see what font and font size they are using. That way you have some idea of how it will look,

 

[carlieplum]

head games

The word count goal is a good idea. I do this in other areas of my life, but not with my erotica writing, since it's what I do as a fun thing as opposed to the writing I have to do to pay the bills.

I don't understand the margin thing, though.

 

[lovecraft68]

The only game I've come to play, but in reality I believe it is more like a superstition.

When I get my plot bunny(the real one, not a "this could work, but that oh, yeah I need to do this bunny) I won't start it until I go to the photo site and find the right cover.

There's been times during the week I've pretty much burnt up my allotted time doing this, but I can;t get started until I have that cover. I then set it as my screen saver until the story is complete.