I like that definition of success. I'm certainly not there yet!
I'm not yet sure whether this new strategy has been useful, but as Shawn mentions a couple comments down, I tend to sit down to write a sentence and then write five or six. There's part of me that's really glad that I'm doing this, because if I weren't, I'd be "waiting" for a block of time between projects to show up--and I suspect I'd never get started. What I'm hoping is that this pattern turns into a drive to work on the project, so that instead of "waiting" for time, I start making it. Because that's really the only way it's likely to happen.
There are far too few occurences for me when I *have* to write something down. The last time that happened was the beginning of a short story I have yet to finished; before that, it was for "Nomi's Wish," which I wrote the first, 5,000 word draft of in a single evening. (It has expanded quite a bit since then, but the initial story changed very little.) When I don't have that compulsion, there are a lot of things I can do instead of writing--like working on projects with deadlines, or, to be fair, playing video games. And, because I'm at that struggling stage with obligations vs. excuses, I often choose to do the Other thing, whatever it is.
At any rate, it's an experiment, and I like the sense of progress (even at a slow pace) better than having nothing. I just don't like it as well as those days when I *have* to write, because I can do nothing else.
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Date: 2008-04-18 02:50 pm (UTC)I'm not yet sure whether this new strategy has been useful, but as Shawn mentions a couple comments down, I tend to sit down to write a sentence and then write five or six. There's part of me that's really glad that I'm doing this, because if I weren't, I'd be "waiting" for a block of time between projects to show up--and I suspect I'd never get started. What I'm hoping is that this pattern turns into a drive to work on the project, so that instead of "waiting" for time, I start making it. Because that's really the only way it's likely to happen.
There are far too few occurences for me when I *have* to write something down. The last time that happened was the beginning of a short story I have yet to finished; before that, it was for "Nomi's Wish," which I wrote the first, 5,000 word draft of in a single evening. (It has expanded quite a bit since then, but the initial story changed very little.) When I don't have that compulsion, there are a lot of things I can do instead of writing--like working on projects with deadlines, or, to be fair, playing video games. And, because I'm at that struggling stage with obligations vs. excuses, I often choose to do the Other thing, whatever it is.
At any rate, it's an experiment, and I like the sense of progress (even at a slow pace) better than having nothing. I just don't like it as well as those days when I *have* to write, because I can do nothing else.