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This is a really good point and thank you for the link. I find that I have more stress from concern about whether the writing really is moving forward even whe
by klelatti 6y ago
This is a really good point and thank you for the link.
I find that I have more stress from concern about whether the writing really is moving forward even when I'm putting words on the page - i.e. will the words I'm writing 'work' - than from writers block. Always at the back of my mind is will these words make the work less cohesive - am I moving backwards?
But in general we manage what we measure and we normally have a word count but no easy way to measure whether a work is really coming together.
- DoreenMichele 6y agoI do "versioning" of pieces sometimes when I'm concerned about that. I get to a particular point, decide I like some of what I've said "but it could be better" and copy and paste the entire thing into a new document and edit that, leaving the old version intact just in case I ultimately decide "God, what shite! What on earth was I even thinking???"
- klelatti 6y agoThat's a really good idea - I use version control when writing code but it's never occurred to me to version when I'm writing English!
- ammarahm-ed 6y agoNice idea! I will try to do something similar!
- thecodrr 6y agoFor this, git was made. Although, its for coders mainly, I don't see why writers can't use it.
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoMany do, it pairs nicely with text-based document processing systems like LaTeX.