kaasknot:

How to write a rough draft*

*for really long fics

Thanks to the marvels of modern technology, there are reams of time-lapsed YouTube vids of artists plying their craft, and every now and then I stumble across artist livestreams, where people can watch them as they work in real-time. For developing artists, I can only imagine how unbelievably helpful these are: you can get a pretty solid idea of how an experienced artist goes from concept sketch to finished product, with a click of a button. As a writer, I’d give my eyeteeth for a comparable resource.

Problem is, it’s really hard to show that process for a writer. There’s a post somewhere saying that the OP would like to offer livestreaming while they write, but it wouldn’t exactly be riveting material—just half an hour of a blinking cursor on a blank page. That post is both true and accurate, and it explains exactly why “in medias res” posts for writing are hard to come by.

But it also gave me an idea.

Like any writer, I have approximately one billion wips, all in various stages of completion, which I can use to illustrate how I get from idea to end. In other words, I’m gonna try to “livestream” my writing.

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