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i would personally love any tips on writing motivation u might be willing to gift us (as i am someone who is allergic to finishing fics :3)
sure!! my #1 winning combo lately is external deadline x writing sprints, i've been doing irl writing dates with pea and we both agree it's boosted our productivity so highly recommend sprinting with a friend even if just online. i'm also addicted to exchanges rn and generally find that the pressure of an externally enforced deadline does wonders for my writing speed, so if you sign up to a fest or an exchange with a theme that you like it might help get you over the line. i'm not super clued into the kpop fest/exchange scene other than ficmix, but i am fairly across the broader ao3 exchange scene so let me know if you'd like pointers on the big multifandom exchanges especially if you write for non-rpf canons!
also c/p-ing from an old cc about how i manage procrastination and perfectionism:
"RE: PROCRASTINATION
- the main thing that works for me is that i have committed to the persona of being a tryhard who is All The Time All The Time and believes strongly in Why Do It Later When You Could Do It Now? and then the internal inconsistency shames me into doing work LMAO i have to like panopticon myself. but it gets the job done!!
- working on two things at the same time is pretty effective for me because when i don't want to do one thing i can switch to the other one and when i don't want to do that i can switch back, i think the artificial binary kinda tricks my brain (huge fan of binaries) into believing there are only these two things to do in the whole world and doing neither is not even an option
- writing out checklists of things i need to do in a nice physical planner that i can put pretty stickers and washi tape on also really motivates me because it makes me enjoy looking at my tasks and also the rush of ticking things off is actually kinda addictive
RE: PERFECTIONISM
- i think i mostly struggle with this in a fic posting context so how i get around that specifically is by having 5 million matryoshka doll ao3 accounts and telling myself that it's okay if the final product sucks because i can just put it on a random side account and nobody has to know it was me
- lately i have also been setting myself strict word count targets (applying my Why Do It Later When You Could Do It Now? doctrine) and basically just writing whatever in order to hit those targets regardless of quality and honestly it's turning out pretty okay, i think the key thing is like genuinely convincing myself that quantity is more important and nobody has to see this if it's bad"
hope some of this is helpful and good luck with finishing your fics!! you can do it!!
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