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I have built an app that helps people to write every day and track their progress: https://writingstreak.io/ I think you might find it useful (it's still in active development, I'm currently working on completing v1). I really hope your project takes off, there's never enough writing tools and communities!
I wrote a book[1] - well - i wrote the same book 4 times again and again, writing, learning, throwing away, writing, iterrating, editing, rearranging, throwing away, starting new, iterrating, ... . Some learnings: I) just write first attemp i made a super fancy setup - google chrome book with custom linux installed that automatically transformed markdown via pandoc into a custom styled PDF everytime i saved. was fun…
This is awesome! Love those advices. I will consider them carefully while I'm doing this. Thank you so much!
This is very similar to NaNoWriMo[1], which originally stood for "National Novel Writing Month" (I say "originally" because the "National" bit no longer applies), whereby you sign up to try to write 50,000 words of a novel in November. It has similar word tracking features and a community of other users whom you can interact with (IIRC; the last time I signed up was 2012). The only real difference is that the words/d…
I wrote a book[1] - well - i wrote the same book 4 times again and again, writing, learning, throwing away, writing, iterrating, editing, rearranging, throwing away, starting new, iterrating, ... . Some learnings: I) just write first attemp i made a super fancy setup - google chrome book with custom linux installed that automatically transformed markdown via pandoc into a custom styled PDF everytime i saved. was fun…
Nice idea. Is there a way to see the list of books currently being written?
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This is awesome! Love those advices. I will consider them carefully while I'm doing this. Thank you so much!
also i always recommend my idol jerry weinberg https://www.amazon.com/Weinberg-Writing-Fieldstone-Gerald-M/... it's not his best book, but yes, he was one of us (nerds, geeks, technical people, hacker, ...) and he had writting figured out.
You'd have to take editing into account. By any reasonable account, I saw a page that discussed it once, to have 100 readable words, you'd need to write 500-1000 words. Which means the time required goes to 5-10x. On the other hand, 200 words per day is pretty low, you could easily get up to 500-1000 words per day once you really get going.
I have built an app that helps people to write every day and track their progress: https://writingstreak.io/ I think you might find it useful (it's still in active development, I'm currently working on completing v1). I really hope your project takes off, there's never enough writing tools and communities!
I wrote a book[1] - well - i wrote the same book 4 times again and again, writing, learning, throwing away, writing, iterrating, editing, rearranging, throwing away, starting new, iterrating, ... . Some learnings: I) just write first attemp i made a super fancy setup - google chrome book with custom linux installed that automatically transformed markdown via pandoc into a custom styled PDF everytime i saved. was fun…
Unless you're already a badass, sitting down in front of 400 blank pages is too hard.
A lot of people would like to write a novel. Novels are hard. Short stories (that might later became chapters) might be a better starting point.
Nonfiction is a little easier, with less of a step change between short and long form. But, smaller chunks can still be a preferable starting point.