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Another Writing Update
3 years ago
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I’ve taken several months away from my work at this point, which does not make me happy, but despite that, I’ve still made progress. Negligible progress compared to the strives I was making before, but it’s progress nonetheless. I’m up to 12k+ words, which when you consider that’s only an additional thousand odd words, it sounds like even less progress than what I made it out to be. But the bulk of my work since the previous update has been editing.
I’ve done a soft edit just to make sure everything is cohesive, and now I’m doing a hard edit to make sure everything is the highest quality I can possibly make it, which is taking considerably longer. My slow (shoddy at best) editing in addition to further learning and that long, long break/loss of motivation I’m still somewhat suffering from — and things are taking longer than anticipated.
This year has been one of pleasant surprises, but major setbacks. That said, I still strongly believe I will be done with this one thing before the end of the year. I want to be, and I will try my hardest to get there. I refuse to go another year with nothing to show for my efforts. To some extent, I have plenty already to show, and have shown to select or curious individuals.
I’m considering posting an unedited excerpt of around 3k words. A teaser, if you will. So people can finally get an idea of what I’m working on, and because the section I have in mind is semi-relevant to the time of year. Halloween, that is. Ultimately, we’ll see if I do, but right now, it’s looking like I might.
For anyone who made it this far; thank you.
I’ve done a soft edit just to make sure everything is cohesive, and now I’m doing a hard edit to make sure everything is the highest quality I can possibly make it, which is taking considerably longer. My slow (shoddy at best) editing in addition to further learning and that long, long break/loss of motivation I’m still somewhat suffering from — and things are taking longer than anticipated.
This year has been one of pleasant surprises, but major setbacks. That said, I still strongly believe I will be done with this one thing before the end of the year. I want to be, and I will try my hardest to get there. I refuse to go another year with nothing to show for my efforts. To some extent, I have plenty already to show, and have shown to select or curious individuals.
I’m considering posting an unedited excerpt of around 3k words. A teaser, if you will. So people can finally get an idea of what I’m working on, and because the section I have in mind is semi-relevant to the time of year. Halloween, that is. Ultimately, we’ll see if I do, but right now, it’s looking like I might.
For anyone who made it this far; thank you.
Livyathan
~livyathan
OP
It wasn’t so bad before the burnout. I am a perfectionist, and it’s hard to ignore the desire for everything to be as perfect as I can make it, but it wasn’t destroying my ability to make progress. I was working slow, and still am when I have the motivation to do so, but I consider that an acceptable trade when the result pleases me as much as some of my edits have. I learned a lot in a month, both thanks to a friend of mine giving me helpful insight and a furthered understanding of the very specific side of writing. It’s far from my first time writing, it’ll just be the first time I’ve had anything worth showing in years.
