Showing posts with label sucky writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sucky writing. Show all posts
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Practice Makes Perfect
Or at least, deliberate practice makes you pretty darn close. If you stick to it long enough.
That's the key to life, isn't it? Sticking to things. Making habits. Keeping habits. If you want to become something, do something, you have to stick to it long enough that you can actually accomplish something within it.
I suppose that's what school is supposed to be about. Teaching us daily so that we can learn things through incessant drills and annoying schedules. We grow to dread the stuff so much, we hate growing up and learning that we're going to have to do the same mindless stuff to make a living, too. And to learn things outside of work? More annoying schedules forcing us to do dreaded drills.
But if it gets me to my ultimate goal of becoming a world-renowned writer? I'd do just about anything.
In that vein, I'm designing a schedule for my writing, to improve myself. And I need some honest opinions to help me along. What would you say, from this blog, are my weakest points? What skills would it benefit me to study in repeated drills to become a better writer? What would you say I'm the worst at?
I really need honest opinions here. Criticism would be wonderful. I just want to know where to start on my journey to becoming a better writer!
Writing quote of the day/month/year: “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
Monday, July 18, 2011
The Lost Pages
So, as you may or may not know, I haven't been writing my 3000 words a day lately. But I did get on one day and do 1500, of which I was very proud...
Until I came back on a few days later to do some more and found that all 1500 of them had been deleted.
Seriously, it was gone! I don't know what my computer did with it (eat it?), but everything I wrote that day was missing. This was really, really bad, as I had to start rewriting the scene and the 2nd version sucked much worse than the 1st.
So, now I'm avoiding the book because the last few pages SUCK, and the other pages I wrote DIDN'T. Stupid computer. What in the world could it have done to my 1500 words?
The lost pages are haunting me, people. What do I do to get over them? Better yet, does anyone have any ideas on how to find them?
Writing quote of the day:
Thanks for reading and please comment if you have anything to add. Have a great day!
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