RiceballWasTaken
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I saw a forum post from @melchi earlier in the day about this meme
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And I know it's a meme asking writers what skill they would want most from writign but any ideas on how to develop some of these skills.
left to right, top to bottom is how I'll order things
1. a mental thesaurus could be acheived by expanding your vocabulary by reading a thesaurus and books with high level words academic things may be best
2. World building, perhaps try quizzing yourself on the details and recall the plot points of your story at spontaneous points int he day when you are bored and have free time.
3. have confidence, be consistent and do something difficult that challenges you and gives you lasting confidence and a breakthrough to the next level of your writing
4. just do what is recommended for potions 10 and 11 which relate to not being lazy
5. Kind of related to potion 1, but I'd say to read a book about social influence and self-marketing.
6. If you tired of reading your own work, it either sucks or you need some sleep. If it sucks, fix it
7. infinite grammar skills, it's something that will just come to you with time but there's not much utility to just train grammar in my opinion since it's just such a small piece of your writing ability.
8. Coherent first drafts will also come with time but what helped me to write coherent first drafts is like reading like 40k word long chapters and adapting myself around that and integrating their attention to detail and the skilled flow from point to point in the story which gets you hooked into reading such a long chapter. Reading long chapters also help for 9, 10 and 11 since if you read something long, you will want to at least try and write something and your pain tolerance for writing might get better. Instead of nagging about having to write 100 words, you don't complain about it after reading a 15k word chapter so you write like 2.2k words.
9. I already do think and I've been consistently writing 5k words a day for like the last 4 days but I'd say to give yourself several times throughout the day to write. It makes it a lot easier and read long chapters.
10. You need to do a dopamine reset and make the only fun thing that you could reasonably do being writing, reading, and self-improvement. And in a dopamine reset, you have to abstain from vices like sugar or the TV, or anything really distracting.
11. If you don't desire to write it, it probably sucks tbh so fix it. but if you are struggling with writing it despite having a desire just see points 8-10. If you aren't distracted you just end up writing as much words you want to. I already have desire lol
12. just rewire your typing instinct. Go on something like type monkey and type some stuff. Get your results, and type noticably slower in order to not get any flaws. After a while of training your brain and muscle memory will readjust and you will have a lot less typing errors.
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The only things that I want from the listed set of abilities is remembering all of my world building, banish impostor (sus) syndrome, marketable ideas, immune to distractions.
Insert meme
And I know it's a meme asking writers what skill they would want most from writign but any ideas on how to develop some of these skills.
left to right, top to bottom is how I'll order things
1. a mental thesaurus could be acheived by expanding your vocabulary by reading a thesaurus and books with high level words academic things may be best
2. World building, perhaps try quizzing yourself on the details and recall the plot points of your story at spontaneous points int he day when you are bored and have free time.
3. have confidence, be consistent and do something difficult that challenges you and gives you lasting confidence and a breakthrough to the next level of your writing
4. just do what is recommended for potions 10 and 11 which relate to not being lazy
5. Kind of related to potion 1, but I'd say to read a book about social influence and self-marketing.
6. If you tired of reading your own work, it either sucks or you need some sleep. If it sucks, fix it
7. infinite grammar skills, it's something that will just come to you with time but there's not much utility to just train grammar in my opinion since it's just such a small piece of your writing ability.
8. Coherent first drafts will also come with time but what helped me to write coherent first drafts is like reading like 40k word long chapters and adapting myself around that and integrating their attention to detail and the skilled flow from point to point in the story which gets you hooked into reading such a long chapter. Reading long chapters also help for 9, 10 and 11 since if you read something long, you will want to at least try and write something and your pain tolerance for writing might get better. Instead of nagging about having to write 100 words, you don't complain about it after reading a 15k word chapter so you write like 2.2k words.
9. I already do think and I've been consistently writing 5k words a day for like the last 4 days but I'd say to give yourself several times throughout the day to write. It makes it a lot easier and read long chapters.
10. You need to do a dopamine reset and make the only fun thing that you could reasonably do being writing, reading, and self-improvement. And in a dopamine reset, you have to abstain from vices like sugar or the TV, or anything really distracting.
11. If you don't desire to write it, it probably sucks tbh so fix it. but if you are struggling with writing it despite having a desire just see points 8-10. If you aren't distracted you just end up writing as much words you want to. I already have desire lol
12. just rewire your typing instinct. Go on something like type monkey and type some stuff. Get your results, and type noticably slower in order to not get any flaws. After a while of training your brain and muscle memory will readjust and you will have a lot less typing errors.
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The only things that I want from the listed set of abilities is remembering all of my world building, banish impostor (sus) syndrome, marketable ideas, immune to distractions.
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