Hello there! I have a few quirks when it comes to my writing:
1. I am never satisfied with my writing and will often delete huge chunks of it when I become frustrated with it. Once I deleted the first 30 pages of my novel because I was dissatisfied with it and used the excuse that I was changing the plot. This is a common practice for me.
2. As for the actual process of writing: I am obsessed with page numbers. I will watch the page numbers in Microsoft word float by, which is good and bad. It's good because I can better pace myself. It's bad because I have to consciously work on my pacing and I become obsessed with it.
3. I am constantly telling everybody I would like to become a novelist (as a profession), but I hate the actual process of writing. What I really love is creating the story - the plot, the characters, and so forth. Writing the actual tale is simply a way of developing them better, which for me is the real reward.
There are probably others but these are just the ones off the top of my head :)
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Date: 2009-05-17 04:45 pm (UTC)1. I am never satisfied with my writing and will often delete huge chunks of it when I become frustrated with it. Once I deleted the first 30 pages of my novel because I was dissatisfied with it and used the excuse that I was changing the plot. This is a common practice for me.
2. As for the actual process of writing: I am obsessed with page numbers. I will watch the page numbers in Microsoft word float by, which is good and bad. It's good because I can better pace myself. It's bad because I have to consciously work on my pacing and I become obsessed with it.
3. I am constantly telling everybody I would like to become a novelist (as a profession), but I hate the actual process of writing. What I really love is creating the story - the plot, the characters, and so forth. Writing the actual tale is simply a way of developing them better, which for me is the real reward.
There are probably others but these are just the ones off the top of my head :)