October 2024's Writer Support Thread

Ever since the month started—I’ve been trying to really sit down and write every day. It’s tough, sometimes I end up just doing a paragraph or two (not me taking a break after every 2 words) for the day. Plus, it’s a big mess—I’m trying to draft the new stuff first before really getting into the prose.

It looks something like this:

character a kicks character b in the shin and they duke it out lol
*choice
    #break it up omg
      u end up getting punched in the face
    #join the fight
      with a battle cry u charge character a and clothesline them

Ugly I know but boy does it make me progress the story faster! Super helpful that I can code through it too.

I find that if I write seriously while trying to progress the story, I get stuck trying to “perfect” a single paragraph like an idiot. Lots of procrastination on reddit later, I found out about zero drafting and thought… why the heck not. No ragrets.

Anyway, here’s to hoping I’ll re-open Lightweaver’s WIP thread and reach my end of chapter 1 goal soon!

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