The thing is, it's a struggle to write on a daily basis as is it. Yeah the current six-a-day posting schedule is hectic to the point of absurdity, and starting this Feb, it's going to be abandoned in favor of 4-a-day, because that way one has the room to breathe and plan ahead and actually think what's being written rather than be hurriedly thinking about how to get those goshdarned words out so and the post after that and then the one after that. It's fair to say the insane posting pace has made me a better person, a more diligent and hard-working person who realizes if daily posts aren't made here then there's hell to pay for later.
But. It's always a rush somehow, innit? There's always excuses, events, people come over, oops I had to go grocery shopping, ahh I was actually processing chyang so didn't get around to doing so and so. So many reasons whatever the circumstances are, and in the end I'll have saved like five hours to write, but have only an hour or so to write properly. For the sake of argument lets say there's enough time.
How the hell do people get caught up with where they were last in their writing journey and pick up from there? It takes me like twenty minutes to even get in the mood. And then write I must, moving my fingers and thinking ahead. Waiting to catch up with what was happening the previous day, to pickup the thread of story and one's mental state seems like lots of hard work. And that's not just for a couple of hundred words either, we're talking thousands and thousands of words!
That's something I really want to learn. I'm okay with the writing part, pushing myself to insane limits of the number of posts and the word limit. The next goal should be quality, but consistency in staying with one piece comes before that, methinks. Thus i'd love to know, how does one pick up where one left the day before, or the week before? Is it to leave in a critical sentence or thought so the mind absolutely cannot do without writing? Must one read everything previously written to pick up? Or should there be an overarching plan, and the continuation of writing is just implementing the next stage of the original grandiose plans?
Now that I'm getting into the nitty-gritty of the writing craft, things are getting saucier. Wish I had a good teacher or a guide to walk me through this journey.
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