sometimes i wish writers could do live streams like artists, but then realize that, even if there were a way to make this not boring as fuck, the act of having other people watch me write would reveal that my writing/plotting/editing techniques are horrific and should not be witnessed by any living human
a normal artist streaming: doo dee doo gonna go through this process in a logical order and show off my skills isn’t this fun?
me, a Word Goblin: and here’s the part where I delete five paragraphs for not making any sense and then start jotting down unrelated plot ideas in an incoherent form of shorthand
#hmmm yes watch me turn this 3000 word draft into a 500 word salad that somehow makes even less sense now ( @iamneversleepingagain)
RIGHT?
Oh! And let us not forget all the weird, embarrassing, and sometimes (incredibly) sketchy things I have to google in the middle of writing a sentence. No one needs to know how long I spent researching the Vietnam draft lottery or trying to find that one word I know that I know but can’t think of by going through ten layers of thesaurus.com
The only reason no one usually sees my weird google searches while I’m streaming is because I have 2 monitors and the stream is only capturing 1 (one).
…..TWO MONITORS WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THAT
I’d do a writing stream but people would get like 10 min of writing and then 45 min of my tumblr dash. With about 15 min of thesaurus.com sprinkled in there somewhere.
I mean I actually did this once and like, one person showed up as I was getting ready and then left so I never did it again. I was like. I can write alone and fuck around on Tumblr without also streaming it
I feel like this is something you can only do with really close friends usually who are actually writers. It isn’t streaming, but I do write in googledocs with people using the chat feature, but not a fun showing off way. More like ‘a dear god can you help keep me focused long enough to finish writing this piece’ sort of a way.
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