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foxcassius · 2 years

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i've been really onto something with the sporadic 10-minute writing sprints honestly. since i started doing them a week and a half ago my piece is already 7k and there have been more days where i've written nothing at all than i thought would get me to 7k. turns out age-old writing tactics actually work...who'd've thunk

#now is that 7k amazing? no but i'm heartily embracing the ugly first draft #like 1) that post about how writing is the process of thinking not the other way around #and 2) repetitive practice makes perfect. insert story about pottery class where half were graded on quality and half on quantity #and the ones graded on quantity made better quality items than the ones who spent forever agonizing over 1 item's quality #so yeah.....sometimes the writing is sporadic or deeply lacking in description but sometimes i'll spend the first 10 mins or so #going back JUST 3 or 4 paragraphs and fleshing out what feels rushed and thin before i forge ahead #like realizing i entirely forgot to describe what characters look like LMAO bc in my mind i know....#anyway its been fun i wanna get this piece to 60k/finished by end of oct and i think i can do it if i just stick w the writing sprints #genuinely like. i used to think about Being An Author being My Job and being like thats so stupid bc i cant make myself #sit and write for 3 or 4 hours a day #well no stupid of course you can't write for 4 hours in a row (unless its wsnxx madness moments) but you can write for 4 hours in #15-minute portions whilw doing other productive things between.....smh at myself for being this dumb for this long. but im smart now. so.#t

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