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Person: how does writing work?
Writer: well you type & you delete. You rethink. Then you do 187 min of
research & correct it. You reread & wonder if you have a grasp of English.
Then you revise
Person: then you're done with the book?
Writer: then you move to the next sentence

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[–] 2 points 3 months ago

@NickEast_IndieWriter @galacticwriters @bookstodon @joinin @writingbooks @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiopSome books do indeed read as if that much effort had gone into each sentence.Others don't.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Tgey totally forgot the extremely important part where you end up doing research only to be distracted by something like a wikipedia article, only to not do said research. Unless that's already part of the 3 hours of research.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Or you lock yourself in your mom's house for a few weeks, take massive amounts of barbiturates, and crank out classic american novels in a single shot

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I feel attacked!

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