What are your most unhinged writing, reading, & publishing tricks?

[Representing_Tromba]

What tips and tricks do you utilize for your reading, writing, and/or publishing that would be considered either too odd or outright crazy to others? Stuff like, reading the 40th from the last page to see if you'll want to read it, or rewarding yourself with a piece of snack every time you finish a page/paragraph. Doing a pushup for every page you write, or using a tazer on a timer to get you to reach your word count. I can't wait to see what you'll have to say!

 

[RepresentingWrath]

 

[Kay_Ship]

I use excel to track my story information. Different tabs for different things like edit and publish info on one page while character info on another. It's a disaster but if I don't do something then I will end up having to guess where info is in chapters and will get things wrong.

 

[Bald-san]

Well, I won't call it odd, but when I learn something new in school (I'm a college student, majoring in science), I infuse it immediately into my story. This started in the last 2 arcs of my story, so the latter half of it is all about relativity of time or mana and Planck energy being one. Currently, I still use it in the sequel

Also, this is my profile if anyone is interested in my stories: Here

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

What tips and tricks do you utilize for your reading, writing, and/or publishing that would be considered either too odd or outright crazy to others? Stuff like, reading the 40th from the last page to see if you'll want to read it, or rewarding yourself with a piece of snack every time you finish a page/paragraph. Doing a pushup for every page you write, or using a tazer on a timer to get you to reach your word count. I can't wait to see what you'll have to say!

I reward myself with rest once I finished writing an entire volume. I also isolate myself from everyone whenever I write.

 

[expentio]

I wait till midday, somewhere from 12:00 - 16:00, and wait exactly six minutes. The idea is that most releases happen at the full hour. So if I wait till past that my chapter will stay longer on the front page. Yet waiting five minutes is going what everyone with the same idea as me would take, so one more minute. Yet if I miss the timing, I'm gonna have to wait till the next full hour. If I miss that one again, that means waiting for another. It can happen that this continues till 21:06. Yet after that point, I call it a day and begrudgingly accept my terrible timing.

 

[Zenftiy]

I'm trying to quit smoking. So I set myself a tough challenge where I have to write 10k words a day and if I fail, no cigarettes for the day.

 

[Minx]

I motivated myself with encouragement words like "Would you rather work a 9/11 job, or write?"

 

[Deleted member 84247]

I have a 1.5k word benchmark I have to hit everyday. On days where it was harder, I made it to where I cant touch a game or any other form of entertainment until the words were done. The most I allowed myself was walking around outside for fresh air. Otherwise, I'd have to sit there bored until the chapter finished.

I did the same thing with reading before. No getting online, no browsing forums, or even playing chess unless I finished reading 5 chapters.

 

[Tempokai]

my duology is my unhinged writing tricks guide. It doesn't make sense, but when you think about it, it does lmao

 

[Llamadragon]

When you challenge yourself to write the absolutely shittiest crap you can possibly wrench out of your brain, the odds that it'll be way better than your 'normal' writing is not zero.

The desire to "make something good" is actually a mental obstacle for a lot of writers.

 

[RainyLiquid]

I try to sacrifice 100 goats before a chapter so the dark lord will bless me.

 

[ShrimpShady]

Have a healthy dose of hatred in your heart. It's not enough to be inspired by the things you love. You must also write to spite the things you hate

 

[Jailbreak571]

I motivate myself by doing nothing, making me so bored I would actually stop procrastinating and do something.

 

[DeepWater]

If I'm in a good flow writing I'll just piss and shit my pants instead of getting up to go to the bathroom.

 

[MindFudge]

If i dont read the first word ill never have to read the rest.

(I dispise reading)

 

[Alfir]

I stand up after writing a chapter.
And then I sit again.

It's pretty rewarding.

 

[Zodiac36Gold]

For my writing, the most unhinged thing I could say about me is that I spent something along the lines of a few months deeply researching folklore from all over the world while also trying to find ways to integrate the celtic Fae, the Appalachian Skinwalkers/Skinstealer and Wendigo, the russian chorts and a few others in the same setting without it feeling like me vomiting random stuff on it.

Another unhinged thing I do at times is writing a ten thousand word chapter in a single night because I was too busy before and the deadline is close and I cannot for the love of me tell myself "Yeah, no, I can get a chappie out late".

 

[Tyranomaster]

If you wait to write until the last minute, you won't have time to second guess yourself.

 

[H0LL0W]

I'll write absolute trash and be proud of it.
It's trash but its my trash.