Planning/wishful thinking

[hmpf]

I'd like to finish 68 Wives within the next two months, my untitled Maya fic sometime soon after that, and Found In Translation by the end of the year.

Of course, that would mean finishing five stories in 2006, which would be an unheard-of number for me... a real record. So maybe I shouldn't set my hopes so high.

Gnarf. I want to be able to write faster.

Comments

[mmapmaker.livejournal.com]

Goals are a fine thing, aren't they? A fine thing. But they shouldn't be sticks we use to beat ourselves with when we don't meet them.

I am a fine one to talk, I'll admit, as I signed up to write something in January and haven't touched it, nay, not put thought one to it, since I agreed to do it. I have the odd thought of guilt because of it. -g-

I must say I'm looking forward to any HL fic. You have a deliciously unusual perspective that no one else provides.

Well, two out of the three I'd like to finish this year *are* HL,

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

so there's a chance you'll get something to read sometime, err, soon. Soon-ish. Sometime this year. ;-)

[ommadon.livejournal.com]

*Clicks tongue* You don't want to be wasting your time wishing you could write faster! No, no, no - instead you want to wish for time to slow down around you, that'd achieve the same effect but be much more useful from the generic perspective *nods*

That's what I love about you:

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

your good sense. ;-)

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I now wish I'd actually learned to type for real at some point. Nin types nearly a 100 WPM and can hold a conversation while doing it. Needless to say, she finishes her fic much faster than I do with my two finger method [g] I didn't write a thiong for over two years, so Im still in that dam breaking stage where I can't seem to stop writing. No idea how long that will last though :)

Oh, I didn't mean the physical part of writing.

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

I can type pretty damn fast (and yes, the 'proper' way - I learned it ages ago, back when I was still in school). However, that has absolutely no impact on my writing speed - I just think so much slower than I can type. I can't imagine what it would be like to be able to be able to think up a story as fast as you can type! My writing goes at a rate of something like a couple of words or a paragraph per day - and I don't even get around to it, or get ideas, every day.

Re: Oh, I didn't mean the physical part of writing.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Ah! Okay, now I get what you mean :) I have the opposite problem, my brain speeds along way past my ability to keep up, and I lose lots of good stuff that way. It's very annoying. When I used to have to write fiction for English class -- handwritten -- I'd always skip words because my brain would be going at a clip faster than I could ever write. My ninth grade teacher never held it agaisnt me because he liked my stories [snicker]

Sometimes I think my brain will explode [g]

Re: Oh, I didn't mean the physical part of writing.

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know a few people who are like that. I wish I could be like that, just for one evening or so. Or maybe for a week. I'd be able to finish all my many WiPs in a week if I could write like that! Instead, I'll keep staring at them for months or years, adding a word here, removing one there, and finally finishing them, five years from now, at which point they'll be maybe a page longer than they are now.