Stress and Writing
It’s been a stressful year. It’s been a stressful week. One way I deal with stress is to get into my rut. This allows me to do what is comfortable and known. Writing is one such thing which. Despite the turmoil in the world, the country, and election, writing allows me to escape into my story and regain calm. I’ve been writing.
It’s been a stressful year. It’s been a stressful week. One way I deal with stress is to get into my rut. This allows me to do what is comfortable and known. Writing is one such thing which. Despite the turmoil in the world, the country, and election, writing allows me to escape into my story and regain calm. I’ve been writing.
We are at day 6 of NaNoWriMo. After day 5, I’m at 10,415 words. I’ve hit my daily goal. I struggled to stay focused on writing and resorted to shorter sprints and more of them to compensate. This let me maintain my output.
I’m sure the quality of my writing suffered because of the distractions in the world.
My planning and scene breakdown “went out the window” after the first scene I wrote. The story and characters took on lives of their own and a lot of details sprang to life, which invalidated all the details I had planned.
Not that planning out a story is worthless. What it did for me was allow me to test ideas and a story outline. Writing it, however, showed me the assumptions and problems I had built into my plan. A plan is like a scaffold. You use the scaffold to build a stronger structure, but when it’s done you tear down the scaffold.
I have a better, more interesting story.
Here is a Words Per Hour Per Sprint graph.
And some general progress.
Don’t get frustrated because your plan no longer works. Try not to get stressed. Relax. Breathe. Wear a mask when outside.
Word up!
We are at day 6 of NaNoWriMo. After day 5, I’m at 10,415 words. I’ve hit my daily goal. I struggled to stay focused on writing and resorted to shorter sprints and more of them to compensate. This let me maintain my output.
I’m sure the quality of my writing suffered because of the distractions in the world.
My planning and scene breakdown “went out the window” after the first scene I wrote. The story and characters took on lives of their own and a lot of details sprang to life, which invalidated all the details I had planned.
Not that planning out a story is worthless. What it did for me was allow me to test ideas and a story outline. Writing it, however, showed me the assumptions and problems I had built into my plan. A plan is like a scaffold. You use the scaffold to build a stronger structure, but when it’s done you tear down the scaffold.
I have a better, more interesting story.
Here is a Words Per Hour Per Sprint graph.
And some general progress.
Don’t get frustrated because your plan no longer works. Try not to get stressed. Relax. Breathe. Wear a mask when outside.
Word up!