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Last week I wrote this fic. It was all I could think about. All I wanted to do was write it! I couldn't figure out why it felt like it was eating my life.
I realized today that I wrote 30,000 words in a week. I actually might've done most of it in five days.
Um. I've performed some impressive feats of word counts, but that one sort of takes the cake. I was even doing real life at the time! Sort of.
Frankly I don't understand time management when it comes to writing. It's sort of like food management. If I don't eat everything on my plate I might never eat again and then I would starve and have to eat my elbows (elbows would be the first to go, definitely). If I don't write it all down as fast as I can, I may never feeeeeel the same way again. It's not really that I'm afraid I'll forget it. I just want it so bad.
So! Here are my questions for you!
1) What is an impressive word count you achieved in a small amount of time? This is impressive for you, personally, not impressive in the world records of word counts.
2) How do you do time management for writing?
3) Do you ever feel like you can't stop writing?
4) Which part of your body would you eat first?
I realized today that I wrote 30,000 words in a week. I actually might've done most of it in five days.
Um. I've performed some impressive feats of word counts, but that one sort of takes the cake. I was even doing real life at the time! Sort of.
Frankly I don't understand time management when it comes to writing. It's sort of like food management. If I don't eat everything on my plate I might never eat again and then I would starve and have to eat my elbows (elbows would be the first to go, definitely). If I don't write it all down as fast as I can, I may never feeeeeel the same way again. It's not really that I'm afraid I'll forget it. I just want it so bad.
So! Here are my questions for you!
1) What is an impressive word count you achieved in a small amount of time? This is impressive for you, personally, not impressive in the world records of word counts.
2) How do you do time management for writing?
3) Do you ever feel like you can't stop writing?
4) Which part of your body would you eat first?
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Generally, I think I've managed pushing 8-10,000 words in a (long, probably) weekend before, but I don't remember the specifics. I don't have fantastic stamina, so it comes in fits and bursts. I certainly don't do time management when I'm writing, because it's far too rare for the words to actually come fluently, so I just work around its schedule (and try to force it at other times). If I happen to be writing something and think I'll get it finished, I can easily write for three hours beyond my bedtime. And then go a week/weeks without writing anything.
I think the only time I really felt like I couldn't stop writing was when I ended up writing 4000 words of comment!fic about Spuffy as penguins in a couple of hours. The joke blossomed into a story where I was convinced that it wouldn't be funny properly (and thus less embarrassing) unless I finished, so I just kept going and going and going. I do get caught up in stories, but RL persists in getting in the way of me working on them, and I have to force myself to let it in.
I'd probably start with my toes on the eating front?
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