One piece of advice I’ve seen is to write constantly. Another piece of advice I’ve seen is to just get it all out on the page and not worry about how it turns out, to fix it in the editing stage.

Except, I can’t help but go back and overthink it. If I write a section or piece, I’m constantly revising as I go along, reworking a sentence or scene or even the word choice as I write. Most recently, I had put myself to a challenge to write 500 words a day (I’ve already failed). I wrote a scene for a story I’d like to work on, but then next day I looked it over and didn’t like it. So I deleted it, and then thought some about what to do instead, and then didn’t write anything more than that.

  • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    15 days ago

    One piece of advice I’ve seen is to write constantly. Another piece of advice I’ve seen is to just get it all out on the page and not worry about how it turns out, to fix it in the editing stage

    If you’re trying to take this advice then don’t think of it as always something you’ll directly use. The point is the process. You get better by doing. The chapter you write in the near future will be better even if it contained nothing you wrote in these exercises in the months before.