(Blog-esque thoughts continued.)
One of the things I often have told other people of, that I feel like they don't seem to get, is how I set little 'quotas' for my writing. I genuinely find it motivating to try and get 250 or 1000 words in for a certain scene or a whole chapter. It helps me have a certain mountain to grapple onto as I propel myself towards developing a certain kind of feeling or atmosphere between characters in any given story. Currently, I give myself a minimum word-count for my chapters of 400, and a maximum of 3000. I love doing this. I genuinely feel a sense of exhilaration from eating up the word-count I set for myself, and I also feel accomplished whenever I complete the word count and I've managed to pad out a certain scene, so that way I can foreshadow or build up a setting well enough. Many people think that this is too 'black and white' and that I should just 'let the demons out' when I write and not care about any metrics, only to then beat me over the head with they themselves considering the 'rules' to writing, so I find I'm not a fan of this kind of lecture. Polishing up things is great, and I do it when I can.
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Final Phenomenon: E-Lunar, Route A (4) (MANUSCRIPT)
Fantasy2071. The legendary God of Apples, Abellio, was kidnapped from Earth and taken to the Otherworld. Though this world is his home, he seeks to track down and destroy those who have wronged him as they reside in this world. No man nor deity...
