[ SECRET POST #3855 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3855 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]


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03.
[The Great British Bake Off]


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04.
[Jodie Whittaker as the new Doctor]


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05.
[Fargo
Top is Mr. Numbers and Mr. Wrench from season one
Bottom is Nikki Swango and Mr. Wrench from season three]


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06.
[Orphan Black]


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[Bands, clockwise from the top left: Chromatics, Trouble, Sharon Van Etten, Au Revoir Simone]


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08.
[Naomi Scott]












Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 27 secrets from Secret Submission Post #551.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Writing

[lordbaelish]

I liked "don't think about writing well until you have a first draft, don't think about publishing until you have a second." Oddly motivating.

Re: Writing

[sarillia]

This is pretty much the only way I can work. Some people argue that there's no point in writing a bad first draft, but they don't seem to be people like me who need permission for it to be bad or else there will be no draft at all thanks to paralyzing perfectionism.

Re: Writing

[lordbaelish]

120% agreed. Besides, there may be some superwriters with the almighty ability to keep equally motivated at every point in their novels or stories, but... it's also normal for an author not to be initially motivated to write a few scenes, no matter how necessary plot or characterization-wise.

Personally, I find that writing a first basic draft at least gives me something to work with later (and hell, who knows, sometimes it's better in retrospect than we first realize). I think that's, in the long run, more productive than jumping to the next interesting scene. After all, that's just postponing a blank page, you know? Does this also happen to you?

Re: Writing

[sarillia]

I write tons of stuff that I plan to fix up later. It probably helps that I actually enjoy revision. Pouring out rough work at first and then molding it into something good later works much better for me then trying to get it just right the first time. And I'm definitely the type to try to plow through a part I'm having trouble with rather than jumping to a shiny new scene.

Re: Writing

[illiadandoddity]

See, I think seeing a first draft as "bad writing" is like seeing a sketch as "bad art". It's incomplete, and obviously it's going to need a lot more work, but it's not inherently bad. It's a framework.

Re: Writing

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my gosh, are you me?

Seriously, though, you're not alone. "Paralyzing perfectionism" is a perfect way to describe my biggest hurdle. In fact, I write my rough drafts in Notepad because seeing the colorful squiggles in fancier word processors are great when editing, but set off the "I suck so bad" train while I'm writing the rough draft.