Write every day! October 2019 - Day 2
Oct. 2nd, 2019 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zwei_hexenLovely to see so many joining us again, and welcoeme to all the new (at least to me ;o) ) faces!
I've also a question for you, as I've just experienced this again myself: do you find your ability to write or your writing creativity in any way influenced or compromised when reading a lot of fic, and particularly well-written, long, intense or so fic?
I find I do. I've observed that the intensity and output of my writing is inversely proportional to the amount of transformative fic I'm reading, and vice versa. I don't read much and mostly only slowly when I'm on a good writing streak, and more so when working towards a deadline; and when I find myself immersed in some intense or just really good fic my writing creativity and output is singificantly less. I know this happens to others as well, but I'm wondering if we're the exceptions or if this is more common.
Tally:
Welcome post
Day 1:alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, china_shop, cornerofmadness, fadedwings, falkner, iferion, mergatrude, sanguinity, silveradept, schneefink, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme (15/15)
Day 2:china_shop, schneefink
Let us know if we missed you or if you didn't check in for a while, so we can add you. Of course joining the fun is possible at any point.
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ysilme here: no tally yet for me again; this is going to be another late writing night.
sylvanwitch here: One of the many perks of moderating a student writing club at my school is the opportunity to write while at work. We typically do a writing exercise at each meeting, and sometimes I get something cool out of it. Today's is just the beginning of a story, 293 words, and it may not go anywhere, but I like what I have so far, so I think I'll file it for the next time I'm stuck on something else.
I've also a question for you, as I've just experienced this again myself: do you find your ability to write or your writing creativity in any way influenced or compromised when reading a lot of fic, and particularly well-written, long, intense or so fic?
I find I do. I've observed that the intensity and output of my writing is inversely proportional to the amount of transformative fic I'm reading, and vice versa. I don't read much and mostly only slowly when I'm on a good writing streak, and more so when working towards a deadline; and when I find myself immersed in some intense or just really good fic my writing creativity and output is singificantly less. I know this happens to others as well, but I'm wondering if we're the exceptions or if this is more common.
Tally:
Welcome post
Day 1:
alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, china_shop, cornerofmadness, fadedwings, falkner, iferion, mergatrude, sanguinity, silveradept, schneefink, sylvanwitch, yasaman, ysilme (15/15)
Day 2:
china_shop, schneefink
Let us know if we missed you or if you didn't check in for a while, so we can add you. Of course joining the fun is possible at any point.
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ysilme here: no tally yet for me again; this is going to be another late writing night.sylvanwitch here: One of the many perks of moderating a student writing club at my school is the opportunity to write while at work. We typically do a writing exercise at each meeting, and sometimes I get something cool out of it. Today's is just the beginning of a story, 293 words, and it may not go anywhere, but I like what I have so far, so I think I'll file it for the next time I'm stuck on something else.
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Date: 2019-10-03 04:11 am (UTC)Relatedly, the thing that gets in my way the most right now productivity-wise is not reading fic (transformative or otherwise) but my side gig writing about hockey, which burns me out a bit.
I find it helpful when switching from straight factual observation writing to creative writing to pause and read something before I start into the novel. Re-sets my brain or something.
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Date: 2019-10-03 12:51 pm (UTC)