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RE: Day 377: 5 Minute Freewrite: Thursday - Prompt: cross-eyed
Thanks to @wonderwop and @whatisnew for delivering prompts. :)
My morning was dedicated to NaNoWriMo and I managed 1641 new words, but trying to update my NaNo home page is a time killer. Still haven't gotten an author photo to upload (not that I want one, but anything is better than a generic image like Twitter's infamous egg), and this despite donating the ten dollar minimum. I still don't like Google dox for composing and self-editing. I'll go back to the W.I.P. now, resist the urge to do a 5-minute freewrite today (unless "cross eyed" fits in), and see if i can silence the internal editor/perfectionist and just WRITE.
I wish you the best! Freewrites definitely saved me from my inner editor/perfectionist, but I think I went in the complete opposite direction. I never even want to read over what I wrote, much less edit it! :)
I need to reach that point!
Well, except for "never want to read over what I wrote" - I assume you don't mean you hate reading your own writing. i made the mistake of reading what I had written for NaNo this morning and was on the verge of giving up on day one. Lesson here - do NOT read what you wrote for at least 3 days or longer! And be prepared to hate most of it, and be on the lookout for the little bit that will be worth saving....
I just generally don't want to read what I wrote, because I kind of feel like I'm reading it/discovering it as it's being written. I'm really REALLY weird about not wanting to redo something I've already done. I rarely rewatch movies or reread books I've read, unless it's been a LONG time. I feel the same way about my writing, my art, pretty much any of it.
I don't plan to read any of my NaNoWriMo until it's all done. I'm tracking the plot stuff as I go so that hopefully for once I won't need to keep going back to read things to find a scene/character name or prop or something for a future chapter. I don't want to second guess myself into not finishing it!
Just keep writing. You can always look it over later!
It's a healthy habit and one that allows you to be more prolific than the introspective perfectionists who never know when to quit revising! I need to emulate you.