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[tencrush]

In honour of NaNoWriMo, I am going to experiment for a month with NOT WRITING A NOVEL, because that's probably far better for everyone concerned. What I will be doing, is experimenting with going FRIENDS ONLY on this journal. I get a lot of anonymous comments, I know, and I'm sorry for all of you anons, I'd rather keep everything open, but frankly, I can't be fucking bothered anymore.

If you've friended me and I've friended you back but I actually haven't ever heard from you since in the form of comments on this journal, I'm cutting you off, I've had enough of lurkers as well.

As you were.

Comments

[cirrocumulus.livejournal.com]

I suppose I get that idea of trying to free your creativity, but maybe I just disagree with it because that's not how I work at all. It usually takes me about an hour to write 500 words because I do sit there at my computer spending several minutes trying to figure out how to phrase the idea I'm trying to express, and though I suppose there is merit in freeing yourself of that self-editing, but when I write I usually feel like the perfect phrase I'm searching for is there, I just need to take the time to stitch it together and I'm not willing to just plow ahead and throw anything down to meet a time limit. You can always go back and edit but you might still miss that perfect phrase you're looking for because you're not really in the creative moment anymore.