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"it's much easier to edit two hundred words of bad writing than it is to edit no writing at all."
tumblr post by mikeyshackwriting I saw a post talking about how Terry Pratchett only wrote 400 words a day, how that goal helped him write literally dozens of books before he died. So l reduced my own daily word goal. I went down from 1,000 to 200. With that 800-word wall taken down, I've been writing more. "I won't get on tumblr/watch TV/draw/read until I hit my word goal" used to be something l said as self-restraint. And when I inevitably couldn't cough up four pages in one sitting. I felt like garbage, and the pleasurable hobbies I had planned on felt like I was cheating myself when I just gave up. Now it's something I say because I just have to finish this scene, just have to round out this conversation, can't stop now, because I'm enjoying myself, I'm having an amazing time writing. Something that hasn't been true of my original works since middle school. And sometimes I think, "Well, two hundred is technically less than four hundred." And I have to stop myself,
December 29, 2023 at 2:07 PM