1. It's never done
  2. Research is more fun than writing

Alas, unless a kind witch transforms me into a silverfish I will not be able to survive on research and I may eventually have to sell a text of my own.

  • Wertheimer [any]
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    2 years ago

    I'm going to try for something like a 1:3 research-to-writing ratio and see where that takes me. "Staying regular" is a good metaphor. Anything to emphasize the physical or the mechanical. Gotta get away from dangerous, procrastination-friendly thoughts that tell me to rely on "inspiration."

    • Poogona [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yes yes, inspiration (for me at least) is what gets you interested, not what makes you start to write. But I get the insecurity of it all, it's fucking scary to imagine a reader picking at whatever flaws in your knowledge there might be. I just remind myself that while I do the same thing as a reader, I am always hungry for whoever wrote about that topic, even as I pick at it. You must risk the cringe to write basedly.