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Writing & Thread (aka The Writing Thread 4)
RokofAges75:
Someone made a Reddit thread asking the same question I had over the summer about how to write a montage: https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/qv9m8l/how_should_i_write_a_training_montage/ Answers ranged from "You can't. The montage is a tool for visual media and isn't needed in written work." to actual advice about different ways to summarize and show the passage of time, which is basically what I ended up doing - while listening to an inspiring playlist of 80s movie montage theme songs, including "Eye of the Tiger," of course! It worked. I guess it's good to figure things out for yourself, but don't you hate when you struggle with something and then find a resource way after that fact that would made it so much easier?
mare:
That’s interesting. It’s so funny how different everyone’s writing processes are. I needed complete and total silence to write. I find music yo be way too distracting.
I’m going to try to come up with a brand new writing/fanfic/books survey this weekend. I’ll probably just post it in this thread instead of the survey place, just for convenience sake.
RokofAges75:
Instrumental music helps me focus. Music with lyrics is usually distracting, but if I'm really inspired, I can write to anything. Sometimes I do write in silence, but I tend to lose focus more than if I have some soft classical music or movie scores playing in the background.
Yay for a new survey! Sounds good!
RokofAges75:
Happy New Year! Hopefully this is the year that Backstreet's back! (Alright!)
Anyone have any writing or reading-related resolutions for the new year?
RokofAges75:
For anyone wanting/struggling to get back into their writing groove this year, I came across a Reddit thread with a strategy that has worked for me in the past: The one word per day formula.
When I've set goals to write every day or see how long I could keep a daily writing streak going, this is basically what I did. As long as I wrote at least one word that day, it counted. Sometimes, on busy or uninspired days, I really did just write one word. And sometimes I ended up deleting that word the next day and writing something different. But most of the time, one word would lead to another, and I would end up writing over a hundred words... on a good day, over a thousand. I've found that when I feel uninspired or am just out of the habit of writing, working up the motivation to open the story is often the hardest part. But if I open it thinking, "Okay, I just have to add one word, and then I can quit if I want to," it makes it seem a lot less overwhelming. Once I get over that hurdle of opening the story and writing one word, though, more words will usually follow. And when I get a streak going, it becomes routine, which makes it easier to stay inspired so I want to open the story and write every day.
I need to remember this for my long-unfinished stories like Guilty Roads and my Harry Potter crossover. With two other projects I'm actively working on right now, I'm not in the mindset to try to tackle either of those anytime soon, but next time I find myself between stories, that might be a way to force myself to make some progress on them: challenge myself to write at least one word per day.
I hope this helps someone else! I miss all your stories and our fanfic discussions. :-[
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