I just discovered some very helpful things for writing, both on a roleplay forum like this and a larger work such as a novel. I'd like to share these with you, and to prove my point I will spend most of this post using some of what these describe.
youtube.com/watch?v=fCRCQdg1HaE&t=859s
youtube.com/watch?v=Oxfkkfc_79Y&t=1231s
These are two YouTube videos I found which really changed my perspective on how writing functions and what makes it difficult.
cerey.github.io/fighters-block
To help get the motivation to write quickly and ignore mistakes, I suggest this. It seems silly, but it's so helpful it's ridiculous. I wrote this in very little time, though exactly how long I don't know (I probably should have checked the time when I started, but it's a bit late now.
As you can see, it's not particularly good writing. However, this is 500 words, about 1.1 pages of a typica novel. It took very little time. It can be editted later, and suddenly the idea of writing something big appears so much easier. I know for a fact that there are people on this site that would like to write a novel (maybe some of you have, I don't know). Point is, I hope this help you guys out.
youtube.com/watch?v=fCRCQdg1HaE&t=859s
youtube.com/watch?v=Oxfkkfc_79Y&t=1231s
These are two YouTube videos I found which really changed my perspective on how writing functions and what makes it difficult.
cerey.github.io/fighters-block
To help get the motivation to write quickly and ignore mistakes, I suggest this. It seems silly, but it's so helpful it's ridiculous. I wrote this in very little time, though exactly how long I don't know (I probably should have checked the time when I started, but it's a bit late now.
I have no idea what to write, I'm literally just trying this app out. I need to write as quickly as I can to avoid my fightr being defeated so I'm not really going to think about what I write, and instead just do it. It's probably going to end up looking like trash, but the guy from that YouTube channel I was watching yesterday said that's fine. I see at least one spelling mistake already, but I'm going to ignore it because of what he said. It's really helpful and honestly it's making things easier for me. I'll need practice if I'm going to write something half decent someday. Anyways, that guy was talking about an 80% thing which was unexpected but one of the most helpful things he mentioned. The problem most writers face (or rather, one of the problems) is that they expect too much of themselves. They try to be perfect, and avoid mistakes that their readers wouldn't notice regardless. So they edit and change their mistakes and become more and more conscious of how "bad" they are, and because of the extra time spent changing things to make them ever so slightly better, they never finish. Apparently it's quite feasbile (there's another mistake, not going to change it) to finish writing a book in 24 hours of work. Better still, this won't limit the quality of what's written. By reducing the amount of time wasted, the actual work decreases so much that it's possible to finish in a tiny fracton of the time that would otherwise be spent. This isn't to say that editting and proof-reading shouldn't be done; they are both definitely important. It's more about doing these things when the first job is done, and that's the initial bit of writing, nothing else. I realise now that to get my point across better I should have timed this to see the effect that a motivator like Fighter's Block has on a writer, to show how quickly this was done. Afterwards, of course, I will go through and change this if I put this is anything serious, but for now all that matters is that this is finished. Writers can't afford to procrastinate as much as so many of them do, because the result of this in so many cases is that their ideals fail to reach the world, because their ideals are not written. They start, they over-analyse their failures, they stop, and the world is worse for it. If writers can be motmivated to write faster and less carefully, they can get their ideas known to the world, get their creations out there. To give you an idea of how quick this can be, it's now been five minutes since I said I should have timed this. By my guess, that's about a third of the work ago. This will be 500 words, that's 166 words. How long should it take to write a novel 12 times 166 words an hour? Damn.
As you can see, it's not particularly good writing. However, this is 500 words, about 1.1 pages of a typica novel. It took very little time. It can be editted later, and suddenly the idea of writing something big appears so much easier. I know for a fact that there are people on this site that would like to write a novel (maybe some of you have, I don't know). Point is, I hope this help you guys out.
