Midnight_Phantom18
Hey, it’s been forever since I heard from you! You doing alright?? <3
Midnight_Phantom18
@1me2me3me yea, he was a great Prof. I miss him. And yes, it is!! I’m always itching to edit my drafts but I’m like nope. Nope, you know the cycle. The dreadful one. It repeats itself every time i edit it. And then I get consumed on editing and don’t continue with the story. You and me same. I still struggle with it, but I have noticed that if I don’t give it too much thought, it helps my story. Coz I’m thinking, I’m so close…so close to finishing it. Yea an other advice he gave me was, “if you’re writing and halfway through you realize that that wasn’t the direction you want your story to go and you want to change it a bit, go ahead and don’t go back to edit.. resist the temptation!! just write a small note next to it explaining what you plan to do. Like a sticky note saying that the actual story actually starts here or something around those lines depending on what the story leads. Something small and go ahead and write what came to mind instead of stopping and going all the way to edit it all.” He told me that will only “ stop the progress and take me back to the start. And my novel won’t get finished.” And I remember being like everything sounds like me. No wonder I never finish any of my novels. XD
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1me2me3me
@Midnight_Phantom18 That is a great point your prof. makes, publishing the drafts. The hardest part of that is having the courage to post the drafts before editing, knowing you will have to go back later but then you will be making great progress and actually moving on with the story instead of holding it back. That is what I seem to have trouble with. I write a couple of chapters but don't want to post it because knowing my annoying self, a few chapters later I will find myself desperately needing to change around those first chapters for the entire thing to make sense instead of changing the latter chapters to fit with the first chapters. :| It is damn annoying lol
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Midnight_Phantom18
@1me2me3me ahhhhhhh!!!! I’m so glad you responded!!! I thought you weren’t going to till like years later or something. I thought you left Wattpad. I know lots of possible who are leaving and it’s downright sad :( I’m glad to hear!!! It’s definitely believable. Trust me. I’m working on a book that I I’ve been “working” on for four years now but it’s something i work on, on and off. I get busy and forget about it for a year then I work on it. With this rate I have no idea when I’ll finish it. I’m eager to read your book!! I love plot twists!! Yes. And then I’m gonna blink and it’ll be 2023. Each year I’m feeling older and older. I don’t like it at all. XD I’m doing well. Been so busy that I’m not writing on Wattpad often. But when I am, I’m just posting my drafts because if I don’t then I’ll never want to finish it. So I’m forcing myself to publish my drafts. And I’d rather not. I’d rather edit my work to perfection but my Prof. was like, “no stop. You never finish anything coz you always are changing it.” So now I’m like well damn. He’s right. But I’m like whatever I’ll just write drafts here and then after I finish then. I’ll take them off and edit them properly. It’s the only way to motivate me and finish my story so people don’t have to see how terribly my writing skills are. So yep. I’ve been good.
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