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Hey Commited Vission, Not everyone has steam coming out of their computer or ears! Remember we all have our own ways of doing things. I mean I have dyslexia, b ut you learn to cope with the obsticles that life throws your way. Put your thoughts into words and your words into thoughts, take notes and build from there! Don't compare yourself with others we are all individuals. Luv to see more of your work.
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I was being light-hearted. Sorry if it didn't come off that way. I actually really wanted to know how to write faster. But I've figured it out. I found people who will help me to stay accountable for a certain number of pages each night. I want to write more than what I have been writing because I know it's possible. That's all. Thanks.
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Sometimes I can write and write, and not want to stop. Then family think I've done a bunk!
But other days I can't be a*sed. My "hours" of writing are between 2pm and 6pm, and I try and do just that.
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Maybe people who write 50,000 words have been typing stuff on their computers for a while? I don't know but I think the important thing is to write when you can although there will be times when words pour out of you especially if there is a topic that particularly moves you. Keep in mind that you are no less a writer in God's eyes than those who do manage to write so much in little time. You know your gfit, go for it!!!
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I have written the starts of so many stories. When I start on a new idea, I just can't stop typing away on my computer. It's like a posession!
I have the starts of so many short stories saved on my computer, all about seven pages long!
Thanks,
Jessie122 :)
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I try to write two hours a day everyday. That's how i did it on my first novel. I have done the samething with this novel. It's all about control even if I had writers block I would still sit and write. I think it paid off for me when my book was published.
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I understand your frustration. I try hard and can't write that much and I will sit at my desk sometimes half day every day writing. My problem is my mind wanders the other is I do write with a pen. Then have to turn around and type it. Where many people write it typing I try to do that but can't get in the habit yet. I think it's practice the longer they write the easier it gets to them. I've noticed over the last year since I've started writing I don't get as many blocks and my writing is starting to get a little smoother. Practice makes perfect.
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I think it comes down to focus. Those writers didn't just start writing either. They have their techniques down solid.
I spend more time constructing the plot and creating details, that I may or may not use, than I do writing. It takes me about a week to pound out the details for a chapter, but only takes me about a day to write it (Average pages for my chapters are 10-20). So I'm somewhere around 1.5-2.5 pages a day if I did it all together.
That feels pretty slow. ^_^
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Okay, I happen to be one of these people who can write like that. But it has do with my ADD. I do what is called hyperfocus. I am so interested in what I'm doing, I tune the whole world out, I miss things around me. That's part of it. I also have the ability to turn off my internal editor. I correct nothing and just write. I write till I get bored with it. Depends on what I'm writing as to whether or not I get bored.
Some see wow and impressive. I don't. Because when I'm hyperfocused I can't snap out of that unless someone intervenes or something comes in the way of it. Taking my meds help, because it allows to me stop now and pick up later.
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I am horrible at typing. It slows me down a lot. If I'm writting shorthand, I'll get through around 100 words, become distracted, then get back to it. Then I'll question how well the next sentence flows and have to throw myself out of grammar mode in order to continue on. I have tons of ideas, but I write haltingly(go stop go stop go)and type even slower, because I'm rewriting. Maybe if I could type faster...yeah, 80,000 words from now, maybe.
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You are right, at least about me: writing is my life. Fortunately (or unfortunately, however you want to look at it), I am in a position where I can choose to write in all my spare time. People who have busy lives cannot really expect to write as much as those who do not, it's really that simple. Sometimes, however, I think that I would trade all my writing for a life that is interesting and active and full.
I just read something to this effect in the novel Drood by Dan Simmons that struck me as being melancholy and true: "When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is how all of us writers give away the days and years and decades of our lives in exchange for stacks of paper with scratches and squiggles on them. And when Death calls, how many of us would trade all those pages, all that squandered lifetime-worth of painfully achieved scratches and squiggles, for just one more day, one more fully lived and experienced day? And what price would we writers pay for that one extra day spent with those we ignored while we were locked away scratching and squiggling in our arrogant years of solipsistic isolation? Would we trade all those pages for a single hour? Or all of our books for one real minute?" |