Hooray for writing!
Nov. 4th, 2009 03:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinIf one considers that it is still Tuesday in some places, then even with some major distractions in a day this makes three days in a row that I've had a major update (Other Tales, Tales, More Tales). The TOMU update on Monday inherited about a thousand words from last week, but the other two were written entirely within an otherwise hectic day.
I'm getting things back on track, folks.
The flash fiction is a big help. When I first started out writing stuff for the online public market, and then again when I moved to doing it full time, I used such short pieces to keep up the flow and keep my brain limber. It takes so little time to write them and people seem to enjoy the results. The problem was that I ran out of ideas too quickly that way. Jack doesn't seem to have that problem... he tells me he already has quite a list to choose from. A lot of them so far have been based around a single word, though some of them are more complicated. I could just pick words myself, of course, but there's a difference between trying to select a word to write a story about oneself and someone else going "I'd like to see what she comes up with for..."
Maybe it'll get tedious for him at some point. If it does, I will hopefully have plenty of momentum built up, and I'll work out a different source for prompts.
I've also been using the Write Or Die program. This program is pretty great for people like me who do their best writing at a brisk pace, but might have problems summoning that pace at need or maintaining their focus. I find I have to set the grace period up pretty high when writing a longer story, otherwise I find myself having to pause it to scroll back up and read over things. The desktop version lets you pause as often as you like, but doing so is counterproductive to the purpose of the program. Better to have a forgiving grace period and keep the timer running.
There's only one incentive left to hit in the first slate of the fall fundraisers. It's Hazel and Two, "kicking ass". I'm torn about how much more to say about it. I have a feeling that if I say exactly what it's going to entail, that will be a huge incentive, but on the other hand, I'd like there to be some surprise. Ah, well. When the next chapter goes up (dare I speculate that it might be tomorrow?), I'm going to remind folks of the fundraising goal and list the next few incentives after it. We'll see what happens there.
And with that, I should be getting to bed. I'll have another long, rambly blog post in the morning with some more details regarding stuff and things and other stuff.
I'm getting things back on track, folks.
The flash fiction is a big help. When I first started out writing stuff for the online public market, and then again when I moved to doing it full time, I used such short pieces to keep up the flow and keep my brain limber. It takes so little time to write them and people seem to enjoy the results. The problem was that I ran out of ideas too quickly that way. Jack doesn't seem to have that problem... he tells me he already has quite a list to choose from. A lot of them so far have been based around a single word, though some of them are more complicated. I could just pick words myself, of course, but there's a difference between trying to select a word to write a story about oneself and someone else going "I'd like to see what she comes up with for..."
Maybe it'll get tedious for him at some point. If it does, I will hopefully have plenty of momentum built up, and I'll work out a different source for prompts.
I've also been using the Write Or Die program. This program is pretty great for people like me who do their best writing at a brisk pace, but might have problems summoning that pace at need or maintaining their focus. I find I have to set the grace period up pretty high when writing a longer story, otherwise I find myself having to pause it to scroll back up and read over things. The desktop version lets you pause as often as you like, but doing so is counterproductive to the purpose of the program. Better to have a forgiving grace period and keep the timer running.
There's only one incentive left to hit in the first slate of the fall fundraisers. It's Hazel and Two, "kicking ass". I'm torn about how much more to say about it. I have a feeling that if I say exactly what it's going to entail, that will be a huge incentive, but on the other hand, I'd like there to be some surprise. Ah, well. When the next chapter goes up (dare I speculate that it might be tomorrow?), I'm going to remind folks of the fundraising goal and list the next few incentives after it. We'll see what happens there.
And with that, I should be getting to bed. I'll have another long, rambly blog post in the morning with some more details regarding stuff and things and other stuff.