Create wonderful people that you care deeply about, and then kill them.
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Everyone loves having written but everybody hates writing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I thought writers were actually drinkers with a writing problem?
Obligatory shift of perspective.
God this is such a good analogy
Writing is hell. Not writing is hell. The only tolerable state is having just written.
LOL same with programmers. In fact I think moments of extreme frustration are pretty common for people who are really passionate about their work, because when you’re that way you innately push yourself to the limit for it.
that guy is writing
that’s what writing looks like
the mechanical process of putting the words down isn’t what people like about writing
it’s creating the words, and that is what that looks like (in the pics)Does this apply to programming? Because I make those expressions/faces all the time when I code
I think those expressions are universal. I’m a stone mason and I do those expressions twice a week minimum.
I’ve never heard of a Stone Mason, but that sounds so fucking cool. What do you actually do?
I build stuff out of stone.
Here’s a picture of something I’ve been working on.
It’s actually completely done, I just keep forgetting to take a picture of it. If my ADHD lets me remember I’ll post a picture tomorrow. I’m going back to site to clear out rubble sacks, no guarantee I’ll remember.
Damn, that looks awesome. Thank you for the pics. My brother is a carpenter and I love his work.
Just hammer it home
Having done both, I feel like for writing you need to dig deeper. One is logical instead of narrative, but I’d say yeah there are similarities. They’re both mentally and sometimes emotionally exhausting anyway.
In English, I can’t write to save my life. My brain just refuses to make any narrative.
… but you can do it in code?
/j
I don’t think code qualifies as English, does it? lol. Also, it’s the idea of creating the narrative of the story in English that I find almost impossible. Another thing, I can never ever sing in English. Like not even one line. Even if I were to somehow to make it work, you’ll easily tell I’m a foreigner whose native language is definitely not English. Also, there are English words I can never enunciate, first one and my most annoying word that I hate the most is “vulnerabilities”. I chok when I say that word. Lmao.
Software engineering
I think he’s waffling on finishing it himself or dying and letting Brandon Sanderson do it.
“I hate writing, but I love having written.”
Dorothy Parker, as quoted by Oscar Madison
Writing is fun until you read what you wrote.
Then you hate yourself for being such a garbage writer, delete everything, and start again.
I was watching a stream from simon clark and he said one of the worst things he’s done is an audiobook for his own book because he had to read through all of it and couldn’t change anything because it has to be read exactly as it is printed.
delete everything, and start again.
Kill your darlings. As long as you start again.
I wish you could have seen my face melt onto the floor reading your first sentence. It hurt.
The writing isn’t that bad.
The editing is fucking brutal
