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The Bulbagarden Conversational Chat Thread Vol 4

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I never had the courage to join NaNoWriMo. A month of writing is...intimidating. I almost never finish any of my written work, and even then it takes an eternity. How, then, am I supposed to finish anything by such a tight schedule?

.As stated in my sig, I have productivity problems.
 

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I never had the courage to write NaNoWriMo. A month of writing is...intimidating. I only ever finish 10% of my written work, how am I supposed to finish on by such a tight schedule?

Just set your goal at 500,000 words and you'll finish because 50,000 is 10% of 500,000.
 

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Still, I don't think I'm ready. Maybe in a few years. Get myself sorted and stuff.

Good luck to you, though! What do you do to get inspired?
 

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I don't do anything. Last year was the first time I tried it and I made it half way then gave up. All I'm really going to do is have a rough plot and maybe some characters in mind before I start.
 

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I have a tendency to give up. I go in, write a few hundred words and archive it. Bad habit.

Speaking of productivity, I have a lot of writing-related quirks. I think those contribute significantly to my productivity problems.
 

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Like, do you get writer's block often or something?
 

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Two summers ago I wrote a short story, you know just to stay busy in between college. Haven't read it since, but it was about a Scottish guy who goes blind after doing loads of drugs.
 

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Like all the time?

Like I said, quirks. When I have an idea, the moment it's formed enough to be put to paper, I have to write it. Just sit down, and write all that I can, for hours and hours. GTFO real world. If I don't get to do that immediately or something breaks the flow, it just turns to crap. And of course, free time isn't really free. :(

Also, there's thing with me hating my work too much. It goes through cycle after cycle after cycle of editing, and by the end of it, too many changes have been made and it's pretty much unrecognizable. Of course, I end up archiving those as well.

Bad writing habits. Bad writing habits everywhere.

/frustrated writer
 
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Aww :( well, I guess the best solution would be to write when you know you're going to have a bit of free time to do so. Although I guess none of us can tell when we're going to be able to be productive within a stretch of time.

I don't think they're bad habits (well the editing part might be a bit), you just have a certain writing style that isn't conducive to short spurts of time :)
 

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Lol, it sounds very hardcore o_o
Haha yeah. He also had an imaginary freind. I stopped writing when I realised it was basically a Trainspotting and Fight Club rip off haha.
Also, there's thing with me hating my work too much. It going through cycle after cycle after cycle of editing, and by the end of it, too many changes have been made and it's pretty much unrecognizable. Of course, I end up archiving those as well.

I'm like this too, I'm hyper critical of what I write. So, I rarely write and even more rarely let people read it.
 

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Yeah, letting people read what I wrote is out of the question. Not that they'd want to read it anyway.
 

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Yeah, letting people read what I wrote is out of the question. Not that they'd want to read it anyway.

I've only ever shown my girlfriend my story. She enjoyed it, but I don't think she could get away with saying it was as haha
 

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I only let one person read mine too. She said she wanted to read more, but I don't have any more and I'm not going to write any more.
 

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I only let one person read mine too. She said she wanted to read more, but I don't have any more and I'm not going to write any more.

You could just plagiarize and find and replace all character names xD
 

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I think it would be kind of apparent that the entire story and writing style changes half way through =P
 

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I think it would be kind of apparent that the entire story and writing style changes half way through =P

You could say that you were writing from a different perspective to show how the character has changed since you started blatantly copy and pasting from the Great Gatsby xD
 
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