Every day I write the book

[gwyn]

Okay, I'm gonna do it. minim_calibre has been writing at least a hundred words a day for a long time, and I've always admired that. But I can't seem to write unless I'm forced to lately, so I'm imposing my own little hundred words a day challenge on myself, as well as writing this new thing as a WIP so that I can't let it slide. (I got 259 yesterday, my first day, so that was good.) Even if I'm depressed or in a lot of pain, I'm gonna make myself write something, even if I have to throw it out later.

I know everyone will want to tell me that they won't read WIPs, but I don't know if I can do something long anymore without the pressure to update.

This story I've been thinking of writing for a long time just feels like a long road of endless work and suffering, but I will do it. I feel incredibly incapable of it for other various reasons, not the least of which are that there's a lot of science and I am unsciencey and that much of it's set in places I don't know, and I especially don't want to mangle Wakanda. So, lots of research, which tends to stall me out because I loooove research and can easily lose myself down a rabbit hole and forget my focus.

Research: the irresistible siren temptress of the writer's wine-dark sea.

Comments

[ratcreature]

FWIW, I've been so scattered and unable to concentrate lately that somebody posting as a WIP recently actually has been the only way I managed to finish a novel-length fanfic, because it came in smaller parts that prodded me. Meanwhile I abandoned (to now anyway) several finished long stories, not because I disliked them, but because I stopped reading after a bit, and then somehow couldn't make myself pick them up again, even though you'd think once something is finished you could just read in smaller chunks on your own, only apparently not always.

[kore]

I will happily read ANYTHING you write, WIP or not, no lie.

Research: the irresistible siren temptress of the writer's wine-dark sea

OMFG fucking seriously

[topaz119]

I post WIP all the time. It's the only way I get anything more than a thousandish words posted. Yes, there's usually a higher segment of readers once it's finished, but plenty of people will read chapter by chapter. Some of them, blessings be upon them, even comment on every part. And I'm talking that it once took me a year to finish one up in the MCU and I'm looking at 7 months for the one I'm working on now. Everyone has their own preferences and seriously, this is supposed to be our happy place so you do what works for you.

Plz do not speak to me of research, she says as she caaaaasually minimizes the window with the 30 tabs of NYC nightclubs for the Marvelous Mrs Maisel fic she is pretending not to write. *whistles aimlessly*

[musesfool]

*cheers you on*

[aurumcalendula]

Ooh! I'm looking forward to eventually reading it!

[mackiemesser]

I read WIPs all the time! It's the equivalent of waiting for a show's new episode (back when that was a thing).

Besides, if you think of it as serialization, you're really following in a grand and proud tradition.