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1k Words: A Writing Contest

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Re: 1k Words: A Writing Contest

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Post by voidhorse »

random__duck wrote: post #12

I am partially worried of discovering that writing a 1000 words is actually much harder for me now than it was when I was 13.

A lot of people will view this as the decline of creative power in adulthood, but I actually think it's just a sign of maturity. Writing a lot of words when you are thirteen is easier for multiple reasons:

- You know less about the world, so bullshitting is easier because you don't know, and maybe don't care about the truth as much (in many senses, ranging from ensuring you aren't spreading misinformation in a nonfiction text to ensuring your fictional work has some plausibility) - It's easier to write a lot when you don't care about reading time. When you mature, you appreciate the preciousness of time, and understand that less is often more when it comes to written communication. - Your increased knowledge can also create a kind of analysis paralysis or associative fan effect on the brain that's fatiguing. Again, the curse of knowledge as an adult might actually make it harder to start something even though you have more "raw material" to work with (I personally think this is part of the reason a lot of artists stress "beginner's mind" so strongly (another huge component of it being open to randomness and happy accidents, or course)).

Re: 1k Words: A Writing Contest

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Post by avaer »

It really depends on what a word is...

If a WORD is 16-32 bits, you could pack in quite a lot. If a word is a Unicode word, that's even more bytes. Or you could do this in German and go nuts.

Re: 1k Words: A Writing Contest

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Post by postalrat »

PcChip wrote: post #26
random__duck wrote: post #12

I am partially worried of discovering that writing a 1000 words is actually much harder for me now than it was when I was 13.

probably for a lot of people, AI has been degrading our skills

I forgot everyone's phone number long before AI.

Re: 1k Words: A Writing Contest

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Post by NuclearPM »

bjourne wrote: post #15
kmoser wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good catch, thanks. Unfortunately that information wasn't in the email. Now, do hyphenated words count as one word or two? Do numbers count as words (e.g. is "12 years old" three words or two?) If I write 1,000 words but concatenate them without spaces, is that still considered 1,000 words, or one single word?

I don't know of any English word counting algorithm or MoS that does not count "12" as a word, do you?

MoS?

Re: 1k Words: A Writing Contest

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Post by random__duck »

PcChip wrote: post #26
random__duck wrote: post #12

I am partially worried of discovering that writing a 1000 words is actually much harder for me now than it was when I was 13.

probably for a lot of people, AI has been degrading our skills

Alright I am back from the trenches after having written 1k words and as expected: I did not impress myself.
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