Sanojen varjot, pitkät ja väärät
Still going strong. Today I reached 12 500 words and 25% of the novel. I'll have absolutely no time to write tomorrow, but hopefully I can catch up during the weekend.
I have to say this project is teaching me a lot about how I write. There is no time to control or to correct mistakes, and the text has to be written such pace that all my stupidities and faults become obvious. Actually I don't think I have ever written anything fictional voluntarily, so this is a new thing for me. I have vaguely planned on something, but this is the first time I get something done, so that's a huge plus. Of course the result is really, absolutely hideous. I mean really, really bad. But that's sort of the point of this thing, at least for me. I need to practice a lot of control in order to fill my daily word count quota, but the actual writing can be whatever. Everytime I catch myself thinking or analysing too much I just remind myself that nobody, ever, is going to read this. You can do whatever you want. Nice to have that kind of free range for a while.
I have to say this project is teaching me a lot about how I write. There is no time to control or to correct mistakes, and the text has to be written such pace that all my stupidities and faults become obvious. Actually I don't think I have ever written anything fictional voluntarily, so this is a new thing for me. I have vaguely planned on something, but this is the first time I get something done, so that's a huge plus. Of course the result is really, absolutely hideous. I mean really, really bad. But that's sort of the point of this thing, at least for me. I need to practice a lot of control in order to fill my daily word count quota, but the actual writing can be whatever. Everytime I catch myself thinking or analysing too much I just remind myself that nobody, ever, is going to read this. You can do whatever you want. Nice to have that kind of free range for a while.