I've written 150,000 words, but it looks like it might take again that many to finish it. It just keeps taking so long to do the stuff I want to do.
I kind of naturally write long pieces. The short pieces I've done, I've agonized over every word, because each one is so important, you know? And then I still had to go back in and cut half the unnecessary words.
The thing about a longer piece is I don't approach it like that. The words themselves aren't so very important. They can fade into the background, as can the style, so that the ideas and events can be absorbed into the readers' minds in the least distracting way possible. They can and should, unless you're far more clever than me. For that reason, if I know something's going to be short, it can take me a day just to get a 100 words out. But if I'm starting the rough draft of a novel or something, I can belt out 10,000 words in a day if I'm really truly going at it (with nothing important going on).
keeping it all inside until it bursts on to the page works
Good way of putting it!
fuels the desire to write.
This sounds like it would be the most important thing, for me. It bursts but then I get bummed, and want someone to pet me and tell me go ahead, do the next part.
I'm working on something right now that's in the 10,000 range
To quote Kita: OMG wtf are you writing??? I'm excited to hear you're doing a longer fic!
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I kind of naturally write long pieces. The short pieces I've done, I've agonized over every word, because each one is so important, you know? And then I still had to go back in and cut half the unnecessary words.
The thing about a longer piece is I don't approach it like that. The words themselves aren't so very important. They can fade into the background, as can the style, so that the ideas and events can be absorbed into the readers' minds in the least distracting way possible. They can and should, unless you're far more clever than me. For that reason, if I know something's going to be short, it can take me a day just to get a 100 words out. But if I'm starting the rough draft of a novel or something, I can belt out 10,000 words in a day if I'm really truly going at it (with nothing important going on).
keeping it all inside until it bursts on to the page works
Good way of putting it!
fuels the desire to write.
This sounds like it would be the most important thing, for me. It bursts but then I get bummed, and want someone to pet me and tell me go ahead, do the next part.
I'm working on something right now that's in the 10,000 range
To quote Kita: OMG wtf are you writing??? I'm excited to hear you're doing a longer fic!