Friday Rants and Raves - August 15

[sarillia]

Hey all! I haven't done this in a while. How are you doing? How's the writing going? Things to celebrate? Complaints? Let's hear it!

Today's picture is Awaiting the Rebirth by Peter Gric, a wonderfully weird example of fantastic realism:

Comments

[inevitableentresol]

I've met no one else so far apart from myself who has had a bad time with trying to write every day. Perhaps it's because those who do write every day, and find it works for them, are much more likely to talk about it?

So thanks, that's nice to hear.

I think of my way as being like a brain athlete. Athletes deliberately build rest days into their training programs, so why shouldn't writers? The brain is after all one of the body's biggest muscles (after the posterior, which writers also use, for sitting on). :P

The one thing about write_away is that I've been able to see that there as many writing methods as there are people.

[sarillia]

I do think you get more people preaching the ways that work for them to other people rather than talking about what doesn't work unless it went so spectacularly badly that they got a good story out of it. Writing advice especially tends to be very "you have to try this!" and "never do that!". It's a little hard to make an annoying prescriptive writing rule out of the opposite of writing every day so that's probably why the people who don't like it aren't so loud about it. Maybe?

Your rest days sound reasonable to me. That's actually something I'm still trying to figure out with exercise so it's a good analogy.