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Post by HDSimplicityy on Sept 6, 2024 20:59:16 GMT -6
I want to write a 500-800 word article about how some of us writers struggle with that. We want to write, and we also want to do something relaxing after work, such as game or read. Some of us have spouses and children to spend time with, but we also want to chip away at that book. UGH the nagging feeling of wanting to be writing for half an hour when you also want to read another Brandon Sanderson novel.
I'd like to write a piece discussing methods to have effective time management, as well as making decisions. In addition, I'd love to have input from a few of you! Im thinking like five to six folks to give me a few sentences on how the make these work. This is in addition to my 500+ words.
When it is ready, I'd share it here, on my Facebook page, YT channel, and a few discord servers.
Share below what you'd want me to include!
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Post by HDSimplicityy on Sept 6, 2024 21:21:59 GMT -6
The topics can be time management (how long to write vs how long to read a novel), indecision (stuck on just writing when something else exciting begs your attention), making sure we consume storytelling outside of novels, and assuring ourselves FOMO is understandable, but ok.
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Post by ScintillaMyntan on Sept 7, 2024 7:13:18 GMT -6
I don't have much to add because I haven't figured out time management myself. Or rather, I have time but put off writing because of confidence problems.
But I was reminded of something I read in Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's book on creativity: We all have the impulse to relax, conserve energy, to have fun. But creative people have an additional ability to have fun by expending creative energy. And to be productive, we have to choose the latter. He says:
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Post by Sundrinker on Sept 7, 2024 9:32:21 GMT -6
The only thing I found that made a significant different was having a routine and people to write with. For a while, Scinty and I would start writing ~4 times a week together at a specific time. Another thing I did was attend a weekly in-person write-in group. That interesting because I could exchange with other writers.
That more or less solved the "when" to write question, but it didn't necessarily help me put words on paper.
What *did* help me write, as I'm remembering now, is a single singing class I took. I have trouble expressing myself and while that isn't the reason I wanted to take a singing class, it helped with my writing. I asked the teacher at the end of that trial session if I had potential and she responded yes. Something changed after that and I was able to write more easily. I have difficulty putting down more than ~150 or so words in a single sitting and at the time I was writing my review of Pocket Mirror ~ GoldernerTraum. Each day after that singing class, I was able to put out a couple of hundred more words in a sitting. On the last day, I wrote about 1300 words, which surprised me.
Anyway, personally I had a psychological blockage that prevented me from writing.
At this point in time I'm not really writing anymore as my carpentry studies leave me too exhausted to do much creative work afterwards.
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Post by HDSimplicityy on Sept 12, 2024 11:46:17 GMT -6
Ooo this is gold. Thank ya! I'm looking forward to seeing what others say and I'll write it up.
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Post by saintofm on Sept 12, 2024 14:03:29 GMT -6
Make time for it. Find a moment that is good and a place to do it in. I am often riding, so in a car works for me, but I also like to go to a resturant for lunch or a library for a change of place and to avoid some noise. It dosn't have to be a long session, but for that time you need to focus on this. Anything else needs to aid in this be it listening to music or a podcast.
If you do a lot of computer gaming, and your computer has long load times, also good time. I used to get alot of reading done while playing Totaal War on my last computer.
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Post by HDSimplicityy on Sept 13, 2024 18:52:40 GMT -6
Anyway, personally I had a psychological blockage that prevented me from writing. Ive been there, too. Its like a lightbulb finally springs to life to get going again. Earlier this year I just couldn't figure out how to write this Twine project. Thats a game engine. So I quit doing that. What solved it was pivoting to starting editing of my novel. A few months later, I got an opportunity to edit a videogame script.
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