Writing Process

[daveamongus]

Yesterday, I mentioned 750Words, a website that encourages quick writing and pushing your internal editor into a steamer trunk and sitting on him/her. What’s interesting to me is how well it’s worked so far. I haven’t written every day since I started using it, but I’ve written more and more consistently and with less feeling of burnout than I

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[cathshaffer]

Thanks for the tip. I signed up and I find it quite compelling myself!

[daveamongus]

My pleasure :) It's a lot of fun!

[dendrophilous]

I really liked the idea of 750 words (animal badges!) but after a couple days I realized it wouldn't work for me--I do too much writing at lunch with no internet, and adding the step of going to the website and pasting in my words just adds extra hassle to my life.

Can you explain how what you're doing is different from discovery writing?

[daveamongus]

Well, I would say that for me it's discovery writing on speed. Even when I would discovery write, I would knock out 200 words, then fuss over a sentence for twenty minutes, then stare off into space and consider what should be the next little plot development, noodle with it for twenty minutes, then scrap it and start over. This is pretty much no backsies, no stressing over sentence-level stuff, and so on. If that's what everyone else actually means by discovery writing, then consider me just catching up to the rest of the world. ;)

[dendrophilous]

Ah, I see. Makes sense.

I suspect we all have different definitions of discovery writing--after I asked, I thought about it and changed mine.