I outline, then I write, then I update the outline, then I write. Then I ignore the outline.
But when do you do the cocaine?
The outline is like a scaffold for a building. Very helpful early on, but if it’s still standing when you’re done, you’ve done it wrong
I think as long as you’re constantly rewritting you’re moving in the right direction.
Patrick Rothfuss confirmed greatest author of our age
Ow wow she got to meet Stephen King?
If you want to write effectively, you need to sit by a cafe window and look out at the street while it’s raining. If someone asks you what your book is about, sigh heavily, then say that it’s a think piece about furries in space.
Aren’t all furries in space time already?
Do a barrel roll!
There are authors who have a plot beforehand and there are authors who are as exited while writing as readers afterwards. Both ways can work when executed well.
This is all good advice
The ol’ Hunter S Thompson
Stephen King too.
As a writer, yes.
I used meth to write my book (I genuinely have an ADHD component to my mental health but it still fucked my brain and I’ve been clean two n a half years), but now I just brute force this ish. I mean, I smoke weed. Drink maybe once a week. And I masturbate to achieve ecstatic gnosis, obviously (and NOT on offbrand Walmart Benadryl anymore), but I shit out 2k-7k words a day by being agnetic, which means I always go above the call of duty, voluntarily, and I’ve done this for about twelve years, sew I r a gud @ righting automatikly liek fer reel d00d.
Don’t focus on the book. Focus on you, growing as tall as you can living your best life, and the books will essentially fall out of you as long as you’ve done the work to get where you need to be.
Are you sure you actually laid off the cocaine? 😅
Yes, cocaine makes me jittery. I don’t like it. Now, Adderall and methamphetamine both work differently than cocaine (preventing reuptake of dopamine vs flooding dopamine), which both make me “feel” normal (no euphoria) but I can sit still for 48 hours straight, writing the whole time, mind being able to hold a stack of three paragraphs rather than three sentences of what I’m about to write.
But, that also led to major depression and not being able to write more than three paragraphs when sober, so I quit with my life partner’s help and now I’m just your average run-of-the-mill schizoaffective juggler, and you see how my authentic emanations are innately superior to what most people do with their lives. Ah, I shouldn’t punch down. After all, I couldn’t work at Walmart for twenty years. I’d kill myself!
One of those works better than the other 2 combined.
Use Vim?
I cannot recommend Ray Bradbury’s “Zen in the Art of Writing” enough!
It’s a great collection of essay’s about creativity and writing that never fails to light a fire under my ass and get me out making things.
Writing one line at a time
cocaine tbh if you can’t make something fantastix blitz out of your mind on coke you can’t make something good sober
This also applies to art.
