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Fanfiction: Writings about existing franchises @lemmy.ml
Arumin @lemmy.world

Holding Yourself Accountable vs Being Unrealistic in Building Writing as a Hobby (also a touch on Procrastination)

We all know what procrastination is so I'll speed through real quick:

  1. It might not actually be laziness, you might be worried to much about it or if you work a physically intensive job it could simply be that your tired. Find the underlying reason and treat it basically.
  2. Sometimes there's just no solution like going fuck it and just starting it with no plan. I know this won't work for some people but my very long droughts were stopped by me just starting it and letting what happens, happens.

What I really wanna talk about is the holding yourself accountable part:

It's very easy to just not do that and it's also very easy to over do it. The most important thing here is not only consistency but also the realization that you aren't going to be consistent.

Some day, something will break your streak.

Maybe someone in your family dies whether they be human or pet, friends schedule a get together during your writing time, you're moving or something else. Life happens, missing da

Fanfiction: Writings about existing franchises @lemmy.ml
Arumin @lemmy.world

Link for advice I have found though my journey as a fanfic writer

I'm choosing to stay here for the long term whether or not people join in with my discussions. (Though I love it, if you do.) So if I don't make a post in a while, don't worry I check this instance near daily.

But that aside, I've been meaning to make a Google doc or just a document in general of all the advice I heard and incorporated as an accessible way to share with other people. Writing well is difficult and there's no need to add searching multiple sites for good advice on-top of that.

Here's the link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EOeUwpUoklG4zqzp5VCHrT8TYWPHtf0PV2KCjK6JqY4/edit?usp=drivesdk

(If anyone doesn't want to use Google doc can you suggest an alternative and I'll copy it over to that.)