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Getting the hang of writing with something resembling a deadline

Rokuman

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I've been writing fan fiction for a bit now (like a little over a year) but I don't have consistent writing schedule. Can any experienced writer explain how they get a 2.5K to 4K chapter out on a semi regular basis?
 
Not really an experienced writer, but drinking coffee and staring my screen eventually works.
 
Rokuman said:
I've been writing fan fiction for a bit now (like a little over a year) but I don't have consistent writing schedule. Can any experienced writer explain how they get a 2.5K to 4K chapter out on a semi regular basis?
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Warm-ups, outlines, and discipline. So in the last 6 months at QQ I've posted close to... I think 500k words? (Oh god it's 950k words I just checked. Kill me.) Probably more, I'm not counting a couple of failed projects right when I started. I have a very clear outline, I write the end of the arc first, and I sit down every day for at least 30 minutes to write. Writing doesn't mean always putting words to scene, sometimes it means refining an outline, working on a backstory or plot weaving on a more structural level. If you want to publish serially, or if you're really serious about *producing content* rather than like, just maknig art, you have to standardized, refine, and focus.

I do writing warm-ups with drabbles, two sentence horror stories, and watching scenes from anime or movies and trying to "novelize" the scene as a chapter.
 
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Warm-ups, outlines, and discipline. So in the last 6 months at QQ I've posted close to... I think 500k words? (Oh god it's 950k words I just checked. Kill me.) Probably more, I'm not counting a couple of failed projects right when I started. I have a very clear outline, I write the end of the arc first, and I sit down every day for at least 30 minutes to write. Writing doesn't mean always putting words to scene, sometimes it means refining an outline, working on a backstory or plot weaving on a more structural level. If you want to publish serially, or if you're really serious about *producing content* rather than like, just maknig art, you have to standardized, refine, and focus.

I do writing warm-ups with drabbles, two sentence horror stories, and watching scenes from anime or movies and trying to "novelize" the scene as a chapter.
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How do you usually format your outlines? I've been looking for a good guide for a while
 
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How do you usually format your outlines? I've been looking for a good guide for a while
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I use save the cat a lot.

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It's also got me thinking about re doing the outline of a book I'm working on. I wrote a lot but it was pretty haphazard
 
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