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hope you're still alive, 2019 was an ominous year to disappear. anyway i re-stumbled upon "the journal" and wanted to let you know i really enjoyed it and even if you don't come back to it i still consider it one of the best fics in the fandom. hope you're still out there writing and sharing your gift with the world.

Hi! Yes, I am alive. I admit I’ve stepped pretty far away from fandom. I was ridiculously proud of The Journal, though. And, I’ll admit that I hate the fact that I left it unfinished. This isn’t a promise, but I will say that it’s been on my mind several times the last few months. :)

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Okay but what advice was needed??

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This is a concept I need to embrace.

I saw a post talking about how Terry Pratchett only wrote 400 words a day, how that goal helped him write literally dozens of books before he died. So I reduced my own daily word goal. I went down from 1,000 to 200. With that 800-word wall taken down, I’ve been writing more. “I won’t get on tumblr/watch TV/draw/read until I hit my word goal” used to be something I said as self-restraint. And when I inevitably couldn’t cough up four pages in one sitting, I felt like garbage, and the pleasurable hobbies I had planned on felt like I was cheating myself when I just gave up. Now it’s something I say because I just have to finish this scene, just have to round out this conversation, can’t stop now, because I’m enjoying myself, I’m having an amazing time writing. Something that hasn’t been true of my original works since middle school. 

And sometimes I think, “Well, two hundred is technically less than four hundred.” And I have to stop myself, because - I am writing half as much as Terry Pratchett. Terry fucking Pratchett, who not only published regularly up until his death, but published books that were consistently good. 

And this has also been an immense help as a writer with ADHD, because I don’t feel bad when I take a break from writing - two hundred words works up quick, after all. If I take a break at 150, I have a whole day to write 50 more words, and I’ve rarely written less than 200 words and not felt the need to keep writing because I need to tie up a loose end anyways. 

Yes, sometimes, I do not produce a single thing worth keeping in those two hundred words. But it’s much easier to edit two hundred words of bad writing than it is to edit no writing at all.

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What Your Favorite Avatar Ship Says About You (Avatar: The Last Airbender/The Legend of Korra)

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