Writing Thoughts
Jul. 1st, 2024 11:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grayestofghostsI wrote a lot of words, restarted, wrote more words, and...
I am not entirely sure what I am doing, to be honest.
I think the thing I am tempted to do is just get everything (or at least everything that I want to) typed up, and then highlight the passages I actually like from both versions and maybe figure out what to do from there rather than just spitting out more and more words, no matter how cathartic it might be. Then maybe once I have that, I can kludge together enough to figure out what I'm doing next.
I don't know if that will actually work because to be honest I am not a good editor and have not undertaken a project like that before. It is also... a lot of words. I might just throw out the old draft and keep the new one. But I think I need to focus less on words words words and more on... meaning in the words.
Doing this always makes me feel stupid. And I have a convention this weekend so maybe I just need to turn my writing brain off as best as I can.
I am not entirely sure what I am doing, to be honest.
I think the thing I am tempted to do is just get everything (or at least everything that I want to) typed up, and then highlight the passages I actually like from both versions and maybe figure out what to do from there rather than just spitting out more and more words, no matter how cathartic it might be. Then maybe once I have that, I can kludge together enough to figure out what I'm doing next.
I don't know if that will actually work because to be honest I am not a good editor and have not undertaken a project like that before. It is also... a lot of words. I might just throw out the old draft and keep the new one. But I think I need to focus less on words words words and more on... meaning in the words.
Doing this always makes me feel stupid. And I have a convention this weekend so maybe I just need to turn my writing brain off as best as I can.
