I know novelists who will look at the previous day's writing and, if there's something of note wrong with it, add a note about FIX BOB SO HE IS NOT A DENTIST and move on. Notes before revision, but no revision before the end of the draft.
I’d say your pace is just fine, Lev—and it lends to your credibility!
I’ve suspected the Stephen Kings and Brandon Sandersons (pantsers and plotters, respectively) of the writing world are actually just fictions themselves, authored by the big publishers because it’s better marketing than the truth of how “their” novels are so frequently produced—by ROOMS FULL of lit majors! (Not my own theory. This was a Simpsons joke!)
The George Martins and Pat Rothfusses, who keep us waiting years, just seem more authentic for it! 😉
Having published six mysteries, I can tell you it’s true; occasionally, you’re even writing three stories at once, and with all the planning in the world you still have to backtrack and make adjustments. A good, organic, found-in-the wild clue (like finding out that the George V hotel puts different types of mints on the pillows at different times of day) can force you to reconfigure the story around it … kind of retroactive pantsing, but very worthwhile.
The pleasures and pains of the journey have this terrible way of pushing the goal ever higher, or at least that much farther forward. But as a Beagle character might have remarked, your readers will remember you--and still be reading you--when pantsy writers are "fables in books written by rabbits."
Team “I will remember who you are in 10 years”, clocking in.
adsum!
Haha that's what I was going to say
I know novelists who will look at the previous day's writing and, if there's something of note wrong with it, add a note about FIX BOB SO HE IS NOT A DENTIST and move on. Notes before revision, but no revision before the end of the draft.
I don't know if that would work, but...maybe?
I’d say your pace is just fine, Lev—and it lends to your credibility!
I’ve suspected the Stephen Kings and Brandon Sandersons (pantsers and plotters, respectively) of the writing world are actually just fictions themselves, authored by the big publishers because it’s better marketing than the truth of how “their” novels are so frequently produced—by ROOMS FULL of lit majors! (Not my own theory. This was a Simpsons joke!)
The George Martins and Pat Rothfusses, who keep us waiting years, just seem more authentic for it! 😉
Meditation before writing- hmm. Why not a 20-minute fast walk, to raise the energy?
Having published six mysteries, I can tell you it’s true; occasionally, you’re even writing three stories at once, and with all the planning in the world you still have to backtrack and make adjustments. A good, organic, found-in-the wild clue (like finding out that the George V hotel puts different types of mints on the pillows at different times of day) can force you to reconfigure the story around it … kind of retroactive pantsing, but very worthwhile.
If you do figure out a way to speed up writing please let us know
The pleasures and pains of the journey have this terrible way of pushing the goal ever higher, or at least that much farther forward. But as a Beagle character might have remarked, your readers will remember you--and still be reading you--when pantsy writers are "fables in books written by rabbits."