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Oct. 25th, 2011 05:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aamcnamaraSo I tried to do the whole "your ten rules of writing" thing but I only ended up with two. Neither of which are actually rules, more reminders to myself.
Drafting and rewriting and revising and outlining and plotting and thinking about stories and doing other things entirely are all parts of writing. They all use time and brain and energy in different quantities and in different ways.
Words on pages are the artifacts of your mind and process. This is all anyone else gets, and from these--ideally--they will reconstruct what you originally thought. This is also all that anyone will ever pay you for (um, assuming that someone will at some point pay me for my writing).
In other news, it's midterms!
Time management is still... a thing. A thing which I have not yet figured out. The fact that my physics homework problems take me approximately half an hour (each) this semester does not help. Neither does the fact that I like sleep. But I still want to revise A Returning Power by the end of the (calendar) year. Halp?
Also, I want this job. Pity they're taking applications for it now. (Is it bad of me to hope that whoever gets it doesn't end up getting tenure, so that I can apply for the job after I graduate?)
Drafting and rewriting and revising and outlining and plotting and thinking about stories and doing other things entirely are all parts of writing. They all use time and brain and energy in different quantities and in different ways.
Words on pages are the artifacts of your mind and process. This is all anyone else gets, and from these--ideally--they will reconstruct what you originally thought. This is also all that anyone will ever pay you for (um, assuming that someone will at some point pay me for my writing).
In other news, it's midterms!
Time management is still... a thing. A thing which I have not yet figured out. The fact that my physics homework problems take me approximately half an hour (each) this semester does not help. Neither does the fact that I like sleep. But I still want to revise A Returning Power by the end of the (calendar) year. Halp?
Also, I want this job. Pity they're taking applications for it now. (Is it bad of me to hope that whoever gets it doesn't end up getting tenure, so that I can apply for the job after I graduate?)