I've hesitated to post much of arejoinder, because butting heads with somebody on their process vs. your own is pretty useless, but it seems like it's steamrollering everybody. This doesn't work for everybody. I'm not saying my way works either, since it's clearly not productive enough, in some way I'm fighting myself. That said, I understand very well the idea of plant the tush in the chair and just do it. Possibly too well. I found my slogging bits often weren't as good. They kept reading like slog, even months afterward. I was inclined to go pedantic, more inclined to explain too much (and as you can tell from my lj posts, when I say pedantic, oh boy...) I also get interrupted too much, I get dragged away by other demands too much, and can't remember what I was doing when I come back to it.
I'm more inclined to wave off trivialities and drive for what matters a lot more when I'm in the grip of an idea with the Muse hammering away with all cylinders. It's not easy to sustain that one for me. That can be Not Fun in the sense that "a character bashing you against the wall for 18 hours until you get it all down in one long unbreathing swoop" is not what most people call *fun*. Also, not real useful for functioning at work or in other aspects of your Real Life the next day or three.
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Date: 2008-04-01 04:14 am (UTC)That said, I understand very well the idea of plant the tush in the chair and just do it. Possibly too well. I found my slogging bits often weren't as good. They kept reading like slog, even months afterward. I was inclined to go pedantic, more inclined to explain too much (and as you can tell from my lj posts, when I say pedantic, oh boy...) I also get interrupted too much, I get dragged away by other demands too much, and can't remember what I was doing when I come back to it.
I'm more inclined to wave off trivialities and drive for what matters a lot more when I'm in the grip of an idea with the Muse hammering away with all cylinders. It's not easy to sustain that one for me. That can be Not Fun in the sense that "a character bashing you against the wall for 18 hours until you get it all down in one long unbreathing swoop" is not what most people call *fun*. Also, not real useful for functioning at work or in other aspects of your Real Life the next day or three.