✍️ Writing
A community for writers, like poems, fiction, non-fiction, short stories, long books, all those sorts of things, to discuss writing approaches and what's new in the writing world, and to help each other with writing.
Rules for now:
1. Try to be constructive and nice. When discussing approaches or giving feedback to excerpts, please try to be constructive and to maintain a positive vibe. For example, don't just vaguely say something is bad but try to list and explain downsides, and if you can, also find some upsides. However, this is not to say that you need to pretend you liked something or that you need to hide or embellish what you disliked.
2. Mention own work for purpose and not mainly for promo: Feel free to post asking for feedback on excerpts or worldbuilding advice, but please don't make posts purely for self promo like a released book. If you offer professional services like editing, this is not the community to openly advertise them either. (Mentioning your occupation on the side is okay.) Don't link your excerpts via your website when asking for advice, but e.g. Google Docs or similar is okay. Don't post entire manuscripts, focus on more manageable excerpts for people to give feedback on.
3. What happens in feedback or critique requests posts stays in these posts: Basically, if you encounter someone you gave feedback to on their work in their post, try not to quote and argue against them based on their concrete writing elsewhere in other discussions unless invited. (As an example, if they discuss why they generally enjoy outlining novels, don't quote their excerpts to them to try to prove why their outlining is bad for them as a singled out person.) This is so that people aren't afraid to post things for critique.
4. All writing approaches are valid. If someone prefers outlining over pantsing for example, it's okay to discuss up- and downsides but don't tell someone that their approach is somehow objectively worse. All approaches are on some level subjective anyway.
5. Solarpunk rules still apply. The general rules of solarpunk of course still apply.
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So this past month i didn't really keep on top of my writing. I did a few journal entries and quite a bit of work related writing, but nothing creative.
This month I think I'm going to make the goal of writing 3x per week for 15 min (sat, sun, and tues). It'd be great if some of those sessions end up being longer, but I think that's enough to at least get me back in the swing of things.
It'd be nice to have something I can share in next months update, maybe the opening chapter of my book? That's mostly done and just needs some polishing, so is hopefully a reasonable goal.
Oooh!!! That would be so cool!
I have also had some luck with forcing myself to sit down for 10-15 min, like your goal. It's actually oddly infuriating when it works - like I'll sit down, completely resigned to failing to produce anything, but then sometimes just the act of trying is enough to trigger a flow of words. Now if only editing could "flow" like this... :p
Yeah, there are lots of times just getting started is that hardest part for me. Then once I sit down and am 10 min into the task I can just keep going. I'm hoping especially weekend days my 15min goal will turn into a sold couple of hours of work :)
Editing is often much harder to get into the flow though, I can empathize with that lol. I ended up over thinking everything & just stall out. Every once in a while though, I'm in an editing mood and can get through alot. It's soooo mood dependent though lol