To the people who can work and write at home... · 6:33pm Apr 7th, 2020
You're the real heroes.
I don't know how anyone is able to work from home. Doing school work takes about three times longer and includes many more mistakes.
And don't even get me started on writing. The constant noise usually arguments and just no dedicated work space to write is incredibly aggravating. And this chapter, I hate it. And it's literally just the first chapter! All the good stuff starts next. But every time I sit down it's always "Fuck this!", and I don't even say it half the time.
Anyway, I'll think of something soon. I also gotta work on the colab crossover fic, and my one-shots, and I kinda want to write a Sunset with a Canterlot Holy Grail War... but I suck at actually sitting down to write. Sunset either summons Mordred, Hokusai, Okita Alter, or Jeanne Alter.
Speaking of Fate though...
I hope to have something soon though, and I still plan on having something out by the end of the week. Somehow.
Heh. I'm homeschooled, and I have four younger brothers.
It was difficult at the beggining, but I managed to work in a call center, while studying at the college and keep writing, actually that was the moment I started writing, more like 3 or 4 years ago, I had a lot of English grammar mistakes, but the secret was, never give up, find good friends who will support you and even help you to edit. They were the great heroes to me, they helped me and even made me improve my English a lot.
I know it's really difficult to keep writing, even after work or after studying, but I managed in doing that when my teacher didn't was at the classroom yet, I wrote drafts at my notebook or even wrote at the computer until the class started, and when I was at the work when I wasn't having calls, I was writing at the word, so at the end of the day I sent myself an email of the draft I did. It was slown but it was still going.
You will find a way dude. Keep writing, your fiction is amazing. I know you can do it. XD
I’ve been working in software for like 8 years now, and doing it from home isn’t too different from doing it from an office, it’s mostly about just putting your head down in front of a computer.
Now writing on the other hand...the lower key my work gets, the less I write. I guess I’ve always treated it as a release, and my continuously lowering stress levels reflect on my continuously lagging updates...
I keep thinking I should take this opportunity to write but I just keep languishing on the couch...
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That sounds rough. I don't know how anyone would be able to focus in that situation.
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Thank you for the kind praise.
It's not really the lack of energy that gets me now, that was last term. This term it's more like... I don't have a place to spend just writing. I had that when I did a majority of my writing last year all unpublished, obviously and I was able to get a decent amount written. I just don't have the structure this time. I can't go out to the library and hide in one of those cubicles to write. Just can't.
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I wish I had a couch to lounge and languish on. lol
In all seriousness though, all I'm doing outside of school work right now is play Apex. I'm finally starting to get back into reading though, and while I'm bored about 75% of my free time... Every time I want to sit down and write and actually start, it's like... "I hate this chapter/portion I'm working on" or I just can't focus over the constant noise, and then everything gets gridlocked.
A part of me, a very likely part of me, is leading the charge of just finish the scene I have now, disregard the plans for the rest of the chapter, and just push out a 2k thing and include the rest in mini chapters. I hate the idea, but it would work from a schematic standpoint. It would just be disappointing... I was supposed to be at 40k published by the end of the month... I'll be lucky to hit 5k it feels like.