Which is all rather silly because it makes me very slow.
Writing isn't always about speed, though. I used to be a lot more chaotic of a writer, but I've lost my ability to keep up with things as I get older. Plus, now that I'm getting more serious about editing I need my notes and things (I write on napkins, Post It's, envelopes) need to be more consolidated.
But that's because I'm sort of getting MORE and MORE scatterbrained as time wears on.
And sometimes taking the time to go slow and hone can pay off, especially in the quality of writing.
I really wish that there wasn't this myth that the length of time it takes to write something is important to it's quality. Sometimes things written fast are great, sometimes crap. Same with things written slow. It's not like if you take four years to write something that it's automatically better than someone who finished their work up in a matter of months. But the reverse is true. Writing something fast isn't necessarily better, either.
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Date: 2008-04-21 04:52 pm (UTC)Writing isn't always about speed, though. I used to be a lot more chaotic of a writer, but I've lost my ability to keep up with things as I get older. Plus, now that I'm getting more serious about editing I need my notes and things (I write on napkins, Post It's, envelopes) need to be more consolidated.
But that's because I'm sort of getting MORE and MORE scatterbrained as time wears on.
And sometimes taking the time to go slow and hone can pay off, especially in the quality of writing.
I really wish that there wasn't this myth that the length of time it takes to write something is important to it's quality. Sometimes things written fast are great, sometimes crap. Same with things written slow. It's not like if you take four years to write something that it's automatically better than someone who finished their work up in a matter of months. But the reverse is true. Writing something fast isn't necessarily better, either.
Or: it takes however long it takes.