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Jul. 4th, 2007 11:40 amSomething I was pondering in my writing journal...
I'm a slow writer. It's partly laziness, and partly, I think, natural slowness. I wrote about 1000 words this week, and that's a pretty good week for me. I'm sure I could do better, but I get bogged down and don't know what comes next.
I wish I knew how very fast writers do it. Do they never get stuck? Do they always know what happens next? I've known several people who write very fast and produce crap, but I also know people who write good stuff at blazing speed. Sometimes I think they just blithely write or type away without a care in the world, but I guess they probably worry that they're going too fast and might write better if they slowed down. I'm sure if I didn't worry about writing too slowly I'd find something else to worry about. The ink is probably greener on the other side of the page.
The best thing about this week was that I wrote a little every day, chip-chip-chipping away at a story. I just have to try to do a little more every day.
I'm a slow writer. It's partly laziness, and partly, I think, natural slowness. I wrote about 1000 words this week, and that's a pretty good week for me. I'm sure I could do better, but I get bogged down and don't know what comes next.
I wish I knew how very fast writers do it. Do they never get stuck? Do they always know what happens next? I've known several people who write very fast and produce crap, but I also know people who write good stuff at blazing speed. Sometimes I think they just blithely write or type away without a care in the world, but I guess they probably worry that they're going too fast and might write better if they slowed down. I'm sure if I didn't worry about writing too slowly I'd find something else to worry about. The ink is probably greener on the other side of the page.
The best thing about this week was that I wrote a little every day, chip-chip-chipping away at a story. I just have to try to do a little more every day.
