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We're 4 days into the new year - how are your writing resolutions going? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What do you want to achieve this year as a writer and how's it going?

I'm writing a drabble a day and posting them online. I'm editing a short story and want to send it off to some magazines. And I'm reading way more than usual!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

My writing resolution was to simply put less pressure on myself to write "a thing" and to spend more time just writing. So far it is going well. Whether I want to write something that is only 3 paragraphs or 30 pages, I'm giving myself that freedom.

I wrote a cyber-punk short that ended up only being a few pages with a time-skip in the middle because I couldn't figure out how write the middle part. Then I decided "it's cyber-punk, everyone knows how the middle goes" and wrote the last bits instead. Not something that would be published but always trying to write something that would be publish-able is what stopped me from writing in the first place.