Society as We Know It: Frustrating and Rewarding · 1:49am Dec 18th, 2017
I'm saving the majority of my "afterthoughts" about Society as We Know It for the final chapter. However, since I'm winding down with the last stretch of this epicly long tale—I'm currently writing the third-to-last chapter—I'm a bit eager to give my two cents on, well, the length of the story.
One reason why it's this long is because it was part of a new year's resolution. I wanted to write and write and write until at least the end of the year (and I plan to be writing well beyond that, what with having just started "A War" and all). Now that it's a week until Christmas and two weeks from New Year's Eve, the story stands at over 400k and counting. At first, that seems impressive—writing close to four-fifths of, what, "War and Peace" in one year? That's no small feat.
But, sometimes, it's a frustration.
I had a writing schedule and I still have one. Sure, it did change a couple times, but the basic idea was that I would be able to write some words from Monday to Saturday—resting on Sunday. While pumping out words was the easy part, thinking about what those words are is the hard part. Why? Well, I need to write a compelling and good story and I have to carve it out everyday. What makes this even harder is that it's a slice-of-life story—I've found myself running out of ideas more than once, but there was the schedule telling me to "write, write, and write." This is a reason why some of the chapters of this story are lackluster on average.
However, it's a good thing—not that some chapters are lackluster, but that I realized they were lackluster in the first place and why. With that in mind, I could (hopefully) write better with more consistency.
Which leads me to a short segueway: I'm of the camp that says that quantity is a little better than quality—because, when handled correctly, quantity will lead to quality. There's no use in preventing some ideas to be laid out in writing because one's afraid of it being bad. So, I just get out of the gate and write, write, write—knowing that, yes, there will be some bad starting out because someone's gonna tell you why it's bad. Once you learn that, you improve.
So, what's the rewarding part of writing this?
To be honest, it's that I wrote so many words in one story. But, it's a specific kind of story. It's a slow-paced story about changelings trying to get by in living their new lives.
Those are my two cents.
Have a good day. 
Great advice and its true sometimes I get an idea in my head and start to write it but then when it isn't going the way I want it so I end up getting frustrated and scrapping the story entirely, so next time I get frustrated with a story I'll remember this advice.
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That's good. :)