Amazing! What a challenge! I'm a very slow writer, I could never pull that off. I think at the most I could write a short story per month if I would really force myself. 😅 But I would be so stressed out.
To be fair, I had more time for this than you're probably imagining. The perks of freelancing & working from home! (It was still stressful, don't get me wrong.)
Even with so much time, I wouldn't make it. I think that I invested over 200h in Human Island over the course of 2.5 years. I'm really slow. The editing part got me. But of course it won't be like this for the next one.
Nice work doing this (love all the stats, too). It's an impressive feat. I'm not sure I could manage it with that timeframe. My own time pressure has been through creating my Substack and committing to posting once a week, which I hope I can maintain.
Did you ever feel like you were completely stuck and with no ideas for the next story?
And yes, many times! I always have a backlog of ideas across my various settings/characters so I used some of those. My routine was writing each story one day in advance so every day I'd edit the story going out that day, then think about & write the next story. Sleeping over it helped a lot but idea generation was definitely one of the hardest parts of the challenge. At some point I even tried to reverse-engineer a system for it, a sort of formula I could follow. Didn't work.
That being said, I did notice that if I write more, I also get more ideas... so it wasn't as hard as you might imagine? (Hard to explain, maybe.)
That's great, and I totally get that about writing more = writing more. It's something I've heard from others, too.
This year, I devoted myself to doing morning pages of whatever falls out of my brain. 40,000 words of ramblings so far, but it's kept the writing organ well fed :)
Amazing! What a challenge! I'm a very slow writer, I could never pull that off. I think at the most I could write a short story per month if I would really force myself. 😅 But I would be so stressed out.
To be fair, I had more time for this than you're probably imagining. The perks of freelancing & working from home! (It was still stressful, don't get me wrong.)
Even with so much time, I wouldn't make it. I think that I invested over 200h in Human Island over the course of 2.5 years. I'm really slow. The editing part got me. But of course it won't be like this for the next one.
Nice work doing this (love all the stats, too). It's an impressive feat. I'm not sure I could manage it with that timeframe. My own time pressure has been through creating my Substack and committing to posting once a week, which I hope I can maintain.
Did you ever feel like you were completely stuck and with no ideas for the next story?
Thank you!
And yes, many times! I always have a backlog of ideas across my various settings/characters so I used some of those. My routine was writing each story one day in advance so every day I'd edit the story going out that day, then think about & write the next story. Sleeping over it helped a lot but idea generation was definitely one of the hardest parts of the challenge. At some point I even tried to reverse-engineer a system for it, a sort of formula I could follow. Didn't work.
That being said, I did notice that if I write more, I also get more ideas... so it wasn't as hard as you might imagine? (Hard to explain, maybe.)
That's great, and I totally get that about writing more = writing more. It's something I've heard from others, too.
This year, I devoted myself to doing morning pages of whatever falls out of my brain. 40,000 words of ramblings so far, but it's kept the writing organ well fed :)