I slam my face down the keyboard and cry.
Eventually, a chapter appears, after a very long time of lost rolling crying.
I found that having an outline, no matter how random/messy really helps direct that suffering called writing in a timely manner.
How do you go about writing your books?
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I generally have spontaneous background music playing inside my brain and play a live drama inside my head with major plot points of my story as directories as I write.
I also insert a part of myself as the character and think of what I would do with the setting it had and if I didnt care about sh!t. Somehow, I always end up indirectly stirring said #S-word, so there is no need to worry about progression
When I dont write, aiming to brainstorm, I still have random bgm playing inside my head but only think of major plot/detail points in the story.
When I dont do neither with nothing to do I am typically day dreaming.
When I tell myself I should write I then run away to more important work I havent done yet. When I do that work for too long I run away to write. Once Im writing or desigining (game or storyline; aiming to be self employed), I add the following lines of words inside my head along with the bgm thats on in my head through most of the day
"D*mn. Think of the future."
"Think of how fun it is to read this."
"Tell yourself this is the most fun you've ever had in life."
"Think of the readers that keep asking for more or threatening to kill you."
"Is this the meaning to life?"
Then when I edit, my bgm slows and the story comes to a standstill as I read what I wrote on the bright screen to fix edits and tell myself:
"Remember..."
"Imagine how much your pet would look up to you"
"Er..."
"Blergh-..."
"This is what your mother gave birth for..."
Afterwards I run away to any real form of entertainment in the fearful case I might kill myself from the overwhelming load of procrastination that came out of nowhere.
Once I head to bed and watch the bars close away, I finally think to myself before I sleep
"Ah... So this must be what a contract will feel like..."
I write in the middle of boring work meetings, as a way to stay awake.
I plop myself down, take a sip of wine, start a classical music playlist, strike a pose and hit the keyboard as if it is a piano. (Seriously, it's either that or I eat chocolate and write)
I don't think when I write so my works could get a bit messy.
Shadowfang I understand how you feel. I have a clear outline for the major events in both my books, yet I find it hard to write them down. That's why the second volume of my ongoing story ended up three times the size it should've been, because the details kept coming as I typed.
lol! No old school pen and paper?
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Veronica8 I used to write in a notebook with pencil when I was a kid, and there is one glaring disadvantage wtih old school tools.
You can't edit. Yes, you can erase and correct typos, but if you want to delete an entire sentence or add in a new sentence or even a new paragraph (or a few), it is extemely difficult. There is no copy/cut and paste function. You can't make a copy of your work or upload it onto the Internet.
yaoyueyi Google Documents lag a lot for me. Especially since my stories go up to hundreds or even over a thousand pages. When my Japanese friend and I edited a Japanese version of my light novel, the lag was so bad it took almost 10 minutes for the whole document to load.