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beccaelizabethI've realised that part of my brain is all about the length of things.
If other people write drabbles I read the stories like I was eating chocolate chips, little bits of sweet good stuff.
If I write 100 words I think I've maybe written the opening paragraph on a story.
Somehow, somewhere in the back of my brain, I am convinced that anything less than an epic is Not Proper Writing. So my stories take forever because they are all Wheel of Time like in proportions. This is not of the good and I'd get more actual story accomplished if I just applied the same standards to me as I do to stuff I read, that being that a story is the length it is and exactly perfect in it.
*sigh*
On the other hand its so cool when I make a few thousand words. I get all happy buzzy about it. But. Then I have to edit. I think on my second draft I'm going to have to remove whole sections from the story I'm working on right now and I'm all *wah!* because those add up to many many words, and words are tricky to make. Yet I know very well, if they do not belong in a story, it will be better off without them even though that means it ends up shorter.
My brain so contradictory. meh.
If other people write drabbles I read the stories like I was eating chocolate chips, little bits of sweet good stuff.
If I write 100 words I think I've maybe written the opening paragraph on a story.
Somehow, somewhere in the back of my brain, I am convinced that anything less than an epic is Not Proper Writing. So my stories take forever because they are all Wheel of Time like in proportions. This is not of the good and I'd get more actual story accomplished if I just applied the same standards to me as I do to stuff I read, that being that a story is the length it is and exactly perfect in it.
*sigh*
On the other hand its so cool when I make a few thousand words. I get all happy buzzy about it. But. Then I have to edit. I think on my second draft I'm going to have to remove whole sections from the story I'm working on right now and I'm all *wah!* because those add up to many many words, and words are tricky to make. Yet I know very well, if they do not belong in a story, it will be better off without them even though that means it ends up shorter.
My brain so contradictory. meh.
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