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Day 4 is here already! That happened fast.

♦ How are you feeling about the challenge and/or your goals so far?

♦ What’s your approach to world building or writing settings?

♦ Share some descriptions of the world your project is set in (whether direct from your story or just describing it to share here)

Date: 2025-03-20 03:48 am (UTC)
guildrone: (Default)
From: [personal profile] guildrone

I’m starting to think that it was perhaps poor judgment on my part to commit to a writing sprint on a week where I have less free and quiet(ish) time a day than I’m used to—that is, before I start eating into a good night’s sleep and time to finish uni assignments that I only just now stopped stressing over besides. (At the least, I managed another 50+ 40—and tentatively finished drafting a chapter through such…)

On another note, I personally play pretty fast and loose with my settings—in the sense that I don’t like to compartmentalize the conceit in the first place/consider “worldbuilding” as its own thing separate from “plot” or “characters”. It’s all just narrative, in my eyes, and that manifests in a practical sense as myself never wanting to commit to a creative choice I feel would be more trouble than what it’s worth: If there’s a ‘boring part’ I have to get through in my prose, then as far as I see it, I’m probably doing something wrong.

Edited Date: 2025-03-20 03:16 pm (UTC)

Date: 2025-03-21 06:46 pm (UTC)
guildrone: (Default)
From: [personal profile] guildrone

What do you think makes a section of writing boring?

The most honest answer I can give is “if it’s boring”…which is indeed a circular answer, but there are so many ways a stretch of prose can engage me—as a piece of narrative, a brain-teaser in its own right, and/or when put in a broader context besides—that I can’t really think of anything that would be ‘boring’ no matter what.

That being said, I just can’t sympathize with the sentiment of “slogging through all the other stuff to get to the scene you actually want to write”—if I’m legitimately uninterested in writing something, I figure my target audience wouldn’t get much mileage out of it either; to that end, I want every sentence of my work to have something to offer past being ‘proper setup’ (for whatever that’s even worth).

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