shit must out
Nov. 14th, 2009 10:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lobelia321I fell in love with my own comment so I swiftly (and adverbially) decided to post it. But ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sheldrake got it first! *g*:
I have come to the conclusion/ insight that fun stuff is irrelevant. We have been SPOILED by fanfic into thinking that all writing must be fun. But it isn't. Yesterday I wrote 4745 words (yay!) by sitting at a write-in for 4 hours and spending some of those hours procrastinating by ordering lunch / eating lunch / getting a glass of water / getting a glass of pineapple juice / ordering cappuccino / drinking cappuccino / reading (because of course I cannot put any food or drink near a keyboard so cannot write while ingesting same) / going to the loo / asking the other write-in nanoites how many words they'd done / inspecting the other nanoites' writing softwares / looking. And for 3 hours and 3.500 words I wrote RUBBISH. It pains and bores me to read the rubbish. But then I wrote a few paragraphs that were okayish. And this proves: if you want to write fun fanfic, go for it. If you want to write a novel, you must endure the pain of rubbish because the nuggets will not emerge until the rubbish has been ejected, it seems. So embrace the rubbish, I say!
Oh, and I also wrote several pages of steamy sex. You can get the writer out of slashy fandom but you can't get the slash out of the writer. It were het, no less!
sheldrake got it first! *g*:I have come to the conclusion/ insight that fun stuff is irrelevant. We have been SPOILED by fanfic into thinking that all writing must be fun. But it isn't. Yesterday I wrote 4745 words (yay!) by sitting at a write-in for 4 hours and spending some of those hours procrastinating by ordering lunch / eating lunch / getting a glass of water / getting a glass of pineapple juice / ordering cappuccino / drinking cappuccino / reading (because of course I cannot put any food or drink near a keyboard so cannot write while ingesting same) / going to the loo / asking the other write-in nanoites how many words they'd done / inspecting the other nanoites' writing softwares / looking. And for 3 hours and 3.500 words I wrote RUBBISH. It pains and bores me to read the rubbish. But then I wrote a few paragraphs that were okayish. And this proves: if you want to write fun fanfic, go for it. If you want to write a novel, you must endure the pain of rubbish because the nuggets will not emerge until the rubbish has been ejected, it seems. So embrace the rubbish, I say!
Oh, and I also wrote several pages of steamy sex. You can get the writer out of slashy fandom but you can't get the slash out of the writer. It were het, no less!