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Write Every Day: 07 November 02019
Nov. 7th, 2019 10:22 pmGreetings! This is the Write Every Day Check-In Post for 7 November 02019.
I've been struck with a significant case of getting it wrong lately, or at least not being clear enough to people. Not necessarily in my fiction writing, but in normal(ish) communication. It can be pretty frustrating when you look back and something and go "Oh, snot. There was supposed to be an entire sentence there that my brain helpfully told me was there, but it is not." Or where the thing you thought was pretty clear ends up getting a reply saying something like "I couldn't tell if you were in support or against this position." Because text is such a context-devoid medium at times. However, both things were rectified easily enough, I hope, and on another day, we can continue to strive to be clearer.
Today, in writing, I did a lot on a single assignment, because some things that I thought might be funny kept asking to be written. At the point, though, even though I know where I'm trying to go in the story, I am beginning to have the doubts that the person who will ultiately receive the work won't like any of it or will wonder why it's there because they wanted to go immediately to something else. I am trusting my own process in this, and since we haven't made it out of "drafting" stage on this yet, the entire kitchen sink goes in, and the person who will be betaing the work will help untangle it into something that does meet what was asked for and will be an enjoyable thing to read. At least I know it's more than met the minimum for wordcount, so when the tinker phase happens, I won't have to worry about whether edits will somehow bring it in under count. (They almost never do. Most times, the editing process adds words instead of removing them.) I might let that story rest a bit, once I jot the notes for the things that I definitely want to see in them, and go at another story tomorrow. Which I should be heading to bed over, because I have to get up earlier than usual for work. Joy.
Here's the tally so far:
( Rally-ho! )
I've been struck with a significant case of getting it wrong lately, or at least not being clear enough to people. Not necessarily in my fiction writing, but in normal(ish) communication. It can be pretty frustrating when you look back and something and go "Oh, snot. There was supposed to be an entire sentence there that my brain helpfully told me was there, but it is not." Or where the thing you thought was pretty clear ends up getting a reply saying something like "I couldn't tell if you were in support or against this position." Because text is such a context-devoid medium at times. However, both things were rectified easily enough, I hope, and on another day, we can continue to strive to be clearer.
Today, in writing, I did a lot on a single assignment, because some things that I thought might be funny kept asking to be written. At the point, though, even though I know where I'm trying to go in the story, I am beginning to have the doubts that the person who will ultiately receive the work won't like any of it or will wonder why it's there because they wanted to go immediately to something else. I am trusting my own process in this, and since we haven't made it out of "drafting" stage on this yet, the entire kitchen sink goes in, and the person who will be betaing the work will help untangle it into something that does meet what was asked for and will be an enjoyable thing to read. At least I know it's more than met the minimum for wordcount, so when the tinker phase happens, I won't have to worry about whether edits will somehow bring it in under count. (They almost never do. Most times, the editing process adds words instead of removing them.) I might let that story rest a bit, once I jot the notes for the things that I definitely want to see in them, and go at another story tomorrow. Which I should be heading to bed over, because I have to get up earlier than usual for work. Joy.
Here's the tally so far:
( Rally-ho! )
