At my best… I think my record is nine hours or so? (Well, for 10k, exactly. Or roughly exactly. I’m not sure about more than, unless a handful of words more counts. Incidentally, it also was pretty much all I wrote that week.) At my worst… year, maybe?
As someone who has a habit of literally hitting walls, I’m not sure my methods would be of any use.
That would entirely depend on the day and the story. Realistically, 2500 words is a good day for me and hard to hit if I have adulting to do (which is too-often the case lately). My record was 19,000 in a weekend, but that was a novel, not an IF, I had zero responsibilities that weekend, and I’ve never done it again.
I go for a walk. This never fails to help me work out problems in my head or get inspiration. Other methods of taking a break and self-care are also helpful (exercise, eat, shower, tidy up the house, put on some music and dance), but there’s nothing like fresh air and nature to help unwind my mind.
9 hours, wow!
You have it in you. I think I need an upgrade, speedwise.
When I hit a wall, I just can’t bring myself to start writing. Sometimes ideas would be there, but alas, no willpower to bring my fingers to the keyboard. I just keep running scenarios in my mind.
I wish the was a way to just smash the wall like a piece of thin glass.
About 5 hours of straight work at best and about half a month at worst, depends on the general mood, burnout and how easy I can gather ideas. Its mostly the first step that is difficult, once I type that first line, it isn’t all too hard to continue, its just getting that foot in the door that’s iffy.
I would offer advice for hitting a wall, but I have a wall of my own to get over that I’m not managing just yet.
My personal record was 100,000 words in a month a entire game. Normally I am a slow writer. When I write that is. Now I am in a depressive phase were I feel is stupid to write when nobody gives a f about my writing and I have no audience or chance to publish.
However, I do have skills built from my many years in IT and writing that have allowed me to tune my keyboard to muscle memory. I don’t glance at it, but can feel when I mis-type, so I backspace generally. It limits errors.
Not to say grammar, anything like that doesn’t happen. Drafts are drafts for a reason, haha!
It was a one-time occasion, I had to hit a deadline for an essay. Never again.
I’m pretty sure I’m physically incapable of that! My general fastest-speed is hand-written-A4-per-half-hour or so, unfortunately the best metric I have. I was going to run a quick char-amount-check, but apparently the files I used to do that with are not in my current backup and I’m quite not in the mood to go digging the old ones.
A solid writing day (so fiveish hours, depending on distractions/breaks/eating) is about 2k for me. If things are going smoothly, I don’t get distracted and lose focus (crucial, for my adhd-having ass), I can hit 3k+.
So 10k probably takes about 4-5 days? The thing is that while I can type quickly, I write quite deliberately and will take a couple attempts to find the right sentence if necessary. My process works best when I can be mostly happy with the output I’m committing to page. I may just hate editing.
I’ve been thinking about changing the name of my WIP to something that fits the story more and is somewhat reflecting on the game’s content, so that when people look at the title they have at least a rough idea of what to expect. However, the name I want to use sounds kind of similar to another WIP’s title. I’m afraid it will confuse some people.
Just to be clear, the meaning of the title is different, as well as pretty much everything regarding the story itself. And there are no WIPs with the exact name I want to use, so that’s not an issue. It’s the possible confusion that I want to be cautious of.
Maybe I’m overthinking it, but I need some advice. Is it fine if I use the name regardless?
Best: Maybe around 5,000? I write pretty slowly, so it’s usually far less than that.
Worst: We’re going into the negatives, because there’s been days I just delete, delete, delete.
By the way, does anyone know what scene files are necessary for choicescript to work? Is it just startup and choicescript_stats?
The festival opens at a fixed time even if you make an early submission.
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My general fastest-speed is hand-written-A4-per-half-hour or so, unfortunately the best metric I have. I was going to run a quick char-amount-check, but apparently the files I used to do that with are not in my current backup and I’m quite not in the mood to go digging the old ones.