#11 - Kopitar Prefers Amps That Go to Eleven

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This is the eleventh post of Deke Dangle RPF Anon, a community for all your ice hockey anon meme needs.

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Re: Writing Questions + Tips

[(Anonymous)]

What helps you to keep going when you're writing? Sometimes I have an idea I really want to write and I manage to come up with a few thousand words but then I'll end up deleting almost the entire thing and feel frustrated and it ends up never getting written.

Re: Writing Questions + Tips

[(Anonymous)]

One thing I do is that I save everything I write. Even if I hate it, I save it. I have a folder full of documents that are three paragraphs I never came back to or random fic notes I never did anything with in old fandoms. Hell, I just opened a random doc in an old folder, and this is literally the entire contents of the file:

February

Atlantis has been on Earth for almost three weeks when General O'Neill shows up in the middle of the night with four giant televisions and enough beer, chips, and salsa to feed everyone on base twice over.

If I write it, I save it. Even if I think it's the worst thing ever written down. Even if it's apparently a single sentence. And sometimes, I go back through that folder and open some random docs and read them. And sometimes, I go, huh. I bet I could do something with this. And then I work on that thing, and sometimes, it gets finished. Time gives perspective.

This does kind of require that you write in notepad or Word or Libre Office or Google Docs or something else that lets you save your work, though.

Re: Writing Questions + Tips

[(Anonymous)]

I think that knowing what my ending is going to be is a big help. Then I'm working toward the ending, and I know that the other things I write have to make sense as steps toward the ending. No matter how long your piece is, you can just ask yourself "does this logically get me to the ending?" If its yes, yay! And if its no, then you at least have some basis for working forward.

Also, I find that a blank document is the worst. If I'm stuck on a scene with nothing to go on, I almost always stall out. If I'm stuck on a scene, but I've already written "rough outline: sid puts his head in geno's lap, hair stuff" and even a single sentence with a grand total of 7 words, then it feels much easier to keep going.

Re: Writing Questions + Tips

[(Anonymous)]

Friends! Friend sin your fadom are more valuable than gold; trwasure them.

Finding a friend to cheerlead and squee with me, or maybe even co-write, keeps me going. The fastest, happiest writing experience I ever had was basically chat-fic where I talked through the story as I wrote it, then added more depth later when I edited and sent it to a beta reader.

Sure, I have times when I hate a story, and if I'm co-writing, my co-writer friend will have periods where they hate it, but they don't usually coincide. And we usually encourage each other out of our writing lows. Even if we spot a problem, we'll work to come up with a solution. This often makes the story stronger, too.