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Open Thread: Oracle Hotline
--What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever come across?
Ray Bradbury has a wonderful passage in his book on writing about how "quantity produces quality"--that you can only get better by doing a LOT of something, so embrace writing huge amounts in order to end up with a little bit of good writing. It's kind of a positive take on Sturgeon's Law that "90% of everything is crap"--that probably includes my own writing so I'd better write as much as possible to make that 10% worthwhile. :)
Speaking of... I got a couple of very good blocks of writing in and am close to done with two more chapters, yay! With my Yuletide fic, I am deep in canon review, getting lots of ideas, and considering writing my recipient a small treat in the same fandom while I do the review (one of her suggestions would be writable now, but the one I really want to write I can't do until I've reviewed more recent canon!) How have things been for you this week?
Ray Bradbury has a wonderful passage in his book on writing about how "quantity produces quality"--that you can only get better by doing a LOT of something, so embrace writing huge amounts in order to end up with a little bit of good writing. It's kind of a positive take on Sturgeon's Law that "90% of everything is crap"--that probably includes my own writing so I'd better write as much as possible to make that 10% worthwhile. :)
Speaking of... I got a couple of very good blocks of writing in and am close to done with two more chapters, yay! With my Yuletide fic, I am deep in canon review, getting lots of ideas, and considering writing my recipient a small treat in the same fandom while I do the review (one of her suggestions would be writable now, but the one I really want to write I can't do until I've reviewed more recent canon!) How have things been for you this week?
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A NOVEL EVERY FIVE DAYS YESSSS. Right now I'm pretty happy with the 300 or so words a day I'm getting from writing on the bus, but Novembers are unusual! You do what you gotta do...
The Yuletide fic is a lot of fun so far! Rough beginning--my beta has mentioned that the first 500 words or so of a new story are almost always a little rough around the edges until I can "relax into the voice" a little bit, feel like I've gotten setting the scene out of the way, and can start having fun. But now that I've got the ensemble together things are starting to bump along nicely, yay!