tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post2906608530014820510..comments2024-02-28T18:29:41.120-08:00Comments on Not of General Interest: Catching up on the week and some writing inspirationundinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05589384016564587214noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-87947135425786805472018-09-22T16:30:01.562-07:002018-09-22T16:30:01.562-07:00Undine, the blank slate of 750 words makes sense t...Undine, the blank slate of 750 words makes sense to me. <br /><br />I also tried scrivener and didn't find it particularly useful.<br /><br />Best wishes on meeting the deadline!!gwinnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04840990153103781272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-2463727518635929542018-09-22T16:13:30.613-07:002018-09-22T16:13:30.613-07:00Ah the "Where have you been? Haven't seen...Ah the "Where have you been? Haven't seen you around" questions. I wouldn't mind them if they were in the sense in which I ask them (Basically, synonymous with "long time, no see") but two of my colleagues this summer actually pressed for information, which pissed me off. I took most of the summer off, a$$hole. I couldn't say that because we can't have time off, it's immoral, it's unthinkable. But fuckfuckfuckfuck. <br /><br />I wrote a whole short story from word 0 to polished and submitted (and accepted in the anthology) in about 6-7 hours, but that's unusual and I had a deadline I didn't want to miss. I do about 500-1000 words of fiction per day on an average day, but I edit as I go. I can crank out 1000-2000 if it's nonfiction, like a blog post. xykademiqzhttps://xykademiqz.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-12017161849964829192018-09-21T10:37:23.387-07:002018-09-21T10:37:23.387-07:00gwinne, I wouldn't do this if I weren't un...gwinne, I wouldn't do this if I weren't under a major anvil about to drop, so to speak. I rarely do 1000 in a day, but the anvil is inching closer to my head daily. <br /><br />If I open the Word doc, I'm all "this introduction HAS to be fixed" and can't get to the end. 750words gives me a blank page and also a little X at the top of the page if I make the 750 words. Of course, they're terrible words and I'll have to move to Word to get a better draft, but right now I need words, lots of them, or the anvil will drop. <br /><br />I keep trying other things--blank Word doc, Notepad doc, Scrivener doc--but somehow 750words is working for now.undinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05589384016564587214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22001031.post-3679065090337506532018-09-21T05:39:32.838-07:002018-09-21T05:39:32.838-07:00I am totally impressed.
I am largely a slow-and-s...I am totally impressed.<br /><br />I am largely a slow-and-steady writer. There is rarely a day that I don't write something down (even if the something is only a bad draft of a poem in a notebook); but I also rarely do more than 1000 words of anything in a day (this was not true in graduate school when mostly I could write 20 pages in a weekend on a binge...not healthy). When I'm 'productive'--which is not this month!--I do mostly 500-1000 words daily, on a sustained project + editing.<br /><br />Do tell about 750 words. Why that and not open the word doc, say?<br />gwinnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04840990153103781272noreply@blogger.com