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clare_dragonflyWhat part of my brain decided it was a brilliant idea to create, in two of my major worlds, main characters named Taia and Tay, and then give them both PTSD?! I'm reading a book on PTSD now, and I'm already confusing myself.
(Though to be quite correct, since I haven't finished writing the book yet, Tay does not have PTSD. The trauma is still ongoing.)
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I need to rewrite this sentence and it's confusing me. The original phrase is "for the witch had given him more than enough money than he would need for the provisioning he had been sent to do," but that's redundant. Which is better: "more money than he would need for the provisioning" or "more than enough money for the provisioning"? Or something else entirely?
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I keep seeing advice--not necessarily about writing, but that's included--to make yourself feel guilty about doing something, or set things up so you'll feel guilty if you don't do it, in order to motivate yourself. Um, that's not motivating for me. That just makes me avoid everything to do with whatever's making me feel guilty. When I let myself feel guilty about not writing (and it's definitely a "let"), I write less. And I make myself sick.
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I've typed enough today--much of it notes, trying to transcribe the relevant parts of a Criminal Minds episode for a fic I'm going to write--that my right wrist hurts. I think I shall stop now.
(Though to be quite correct, since I haven't finished writing the book yet, Tay does not have PTSD. The trauma is still ongoing.)
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I need to rewrite this sentence and it's confusing me. The original phrase is "for the witch had given him more than enough money than he would need for the provisioning he had been sent to do," but that's redundant. Which is better: "more money than he would need for the provisioning" or "more than enough money for the provisioning"? Or something else entirely?
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I keep seeing advice--not necessarily about writing, but that's included--to make yourself feel guilty about doing something, or set things up so you'll feel guilty if you don't do it, in order to motivate yourself. Um, that's not motivating for me. That just makes me avoid everything to do with whatever's making me feel guilty. When I let myself feel guilty about not writing (and it's definitely a "let"), I write less. And I make myself sick.
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I've typed enough today--much of it notes, trying to transcribe the relevant parts of a Criminal Minds episode for a fic I'm going to write--that my right wrist hurts. I think I shall stop now.
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Date: 2012-05-12 04:15 pm (UTC)re: guilt, I know exactly what you mean. I do the same thing. As soon as I start feeling bad about not writing, I start trying to avoid even thinking about writing and stressing over it and it's just awful. :( I'm much more a fan of positive reinforcement.
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Date: 2012-05-12 05:07 pm (UTC)Oh good, I'm not the only one. Yes, positive reinforcement is the way to go! Like,
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Date: 2012-05-14 06:39 pm (UTC)I'm the same way about guilt. Anyone making me feel like crap for not doing something, even if it's me, is the absolute worst way to motivate me. I feel like this whole "feel shitty about yourself so you will do better" is very engrained in our culture but is not something that really works outside of movies. Maybe for a few people of a certain personality type. But feeling guilty is the best way to make me avoid the task even more, or for me to make myself just stop caring about the task so that I no longer feel guilty.
Which is why I probably sucked at grad school: my advisor was a big fan of angry lectures and public humiliation as motivators to do better, and NOPE.
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Date: 2012-05-14 10:36 pm (UTC)Yes, totally. Public humiliation is definitely not something that would motivate me.