#whcih. seems so obvious that THAT'S why some things work in first and some don't

[july-19th-club]

two writing things ive done in the past week that im not sure are Helping but also seem to be not not helping -

write exclusively at the time between 7am and 7:30am when i then immediately have to get up and get ready for work, because it’s a built-in deadline that forces me to focus if i want to get anything done, and also it’s only really about enough time for 400 words, which is my daily goal, and then anything i write after that at work or later is gravy despite being really a stupid tiny amount of words to write, so i feel more confident

any time as im writing i want to make a note and know it will get me distracted but it’s like. a worldbuilding thing or a motivations thing or a ‘theme to keep revisiting that you don’t want to forget about’ thing instead of stopping and putting it in a second doc which i will inevitably forget about until it’s too late to use the stuff that’s on there without like.....massively changing work ive already spent time on....instead of that i’m making all such notes in bright red text right there in the narrative doc so that i can’t ignore them if i tried. during all subsequent re-reads and edits these worldbuilding deets, motivational reminders, and themes will be interrupting me until i deal with them or make sure they’re consistent which. with my inability to see stuff that’s in Another Location, is probably the only way i could ever achieve complexity and consistency

#i see all kinds of advices like 'keep a separate document for blahblahlbah' you know what's gonna happen if i keep a separate document? #i will write down really useful stuff on it for like four straight hours one weekend and then i'll never look at at the right time again #also i was reading an interview w coleson whitehead at work and he was talking about how like. first person shores up a narrative #where the plot is not complex. so you get the complexity through internal narrative. the more busy your plot and world are #the more you'll need an omniscient narrator to get the scope across or at least a couple limited-third perspectives #whcih. seems so obvious that THAT'S why some things work in first and some don't #and fantasy is hard to get in first unless the world is familiar or intuitive #it seems so obivous but id never thought about it in those exact words before so i always bristled at the idea that id have to cut #my braided first in order to make the world big enough to be interesting #also i'm just now arriving at a point in my writing ability where i can do. characters NOT telling us everything the minute they think of it #and i was scared i just wouldnt be able to do that. it doesnt come naturally. im a natural oversharer and the 'unreliable ommissive narrator #is like.........very fun to read but hard for me to wrap my brain around when writing . so hopefully i figure it out #i'd LIKE to #and there was a time when i didnt think i could write anything funny and i think im a fairly funny writer now :) #these are. i think. the major things that my garbled neurotype makes hard about writing #it's hard to conceive of characters believably deceiving the reader when i can't even do that . or them having different viewpoints #and it not all being some viewpoint I personally actually hold