Planning/wishful thinking

Jun 11, 2006 15:19

I'd like to finish 68 Wives within the next two months, my untitled Maya fic sometime soon after that, and Found In Translation by the end of the year ( Read more... )

writing, macslowness

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mmapmaker June 11 2006, 16:13:47 UTC
Goals are a fine thing, aren't they? A fine thing. But they shouldn't be sticks we use to beat ourselves with when we don't meet them.

I am a fine one to talk, I'll admit, as I signed up to write something in January and haven't touched it, nay, not put thought one to it, since I agreed to do it. I have the odd thought of guilt because of it. -g-

I must say I'm looking forward to any HL fic. You have a deliciously unusual perspective that no one else provides.

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Well, two out of the three I'd like to finish this year *are* HL, hmpf June 11 2006, 19:14:55 UTC
so there's a chance you'll get something to read sometime, err, soon. Soon-ish. Sometime this year. ;-)

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ommadon June 11 2006, 16:58:15 UTC
*Clicks tongue* You don't want to be wasting your time wishing you could write faster! No, no, no - instead you want to wish for time to slow down around you, that'd achieve the same effect but be much more useful from the generic perspective *nods*

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That's what I love about you: hmpf June 11 2006, 19:14:10 UTC
your good sense. ;-)

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ithildyn June 11 2006, 18:56:21 UTC
I now wish I'd actually learned to type for real at some point. Nin types nearly a 100 WPM and can hold a conversation while doing it. Needless to say, she finishes her fic much faster than I do with my two finger method [g] I didn't write a thiong for over two years, so Im still in that dam breaking stage where I can't seem to stop writing. No idea how long that will last though :)

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Oh, I didn't mean the physical part of writing. hmpf June 11 2006, 19:13:47 UTC
I can type pretty damn fast (and yes, the 'proper' way - I learned it ages ago, back when I was still in school). However, that has absolutely no impact on my writing speed - I just think so much slower than I can type. I can't imagine what it would be like to be able to be able to think up a story as fast as you can type! My writing goes at a rate of something like a couple of words or a paragraph per day - and I don't even get around to it, or get ideas, every day.

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Re: Oh, I didn't mean the physical part of writing. ithildyn June 11 2006, 19:19:00 UTC
Ah! Okay, now I get what you mean :) I have the opposite problem, my brain speeds along way past my ability to keep up, and I lose lots of good stuff that way. It's very annoying. When I used to have to write fiction for English class -- handwritten -- I'd always skip words because my brain would be going at a clip faster than I could ever write. My ninth grade teacher never held it agaisnt me because he liked my stories [snicker]

Sometimes I think my brain will explode [g]

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Re: Oh, I didn't mean the physical part of writing. hmpf June 11 2006, 19:49:00 UTC
Yeah, I know a few people who are like that. I wish I could be like that, just for one evening or so. Or maybe for a week. I'd be able to finish all my many WiPs in a week if I could write like that! Instead, I'll keep staring at them for months or years, adding a word here, removing one there, and finally finishing them, five years from now, at which point they'll be maybe a page longer than they are now.

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