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So what are you working on today? My WIP is a womens fiction with alt pov set in the Wild West.
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I wanted to be a writer when I was a kid, but in college with a double major in religious studies and creative writing (poetry) I finally realized that writing didn't make me happy. I needed something to scratch the creative itch, but I couldn't do it as a career.
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The writing I do at work (technical writing to explain how to do something or what needs to be done) scratches that itch and satisfies me. But I still like the /idea/ of writing.
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I'm the type of person Terry Pratchett meant when he said that many people want to have written, but not many people want to write.
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That said, I do enjoy blogging or writing on networks like this. The interaction and engagement is much different to me than writing into a word processor.
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btw, that's a thread ☝️ and here's what the thread frame looks like: https://seemore.tv/creatortools/fcthreads/293719?h=0xc816c735aaaab4f59ca88a5a5b2a95b4d59a748a
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aaaand looks like the frame isn't working, lol. Sorry about that.
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I see a frame! I don’t yet understand frames. Pratchett was so wise. He really saw humans for what they are. Writing itself can be a burden, that’s true. Probably why I need a deadline and tend to write in fits and spurts. Technical writing, though— I coulda done that, maybe. Is it challenging work?
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I think it takes a particular way of thinking. A lot of people start at step 8, and you really have to back up and think about how to walk someone through from first principles.
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That’s a good point. I see it in teaching—if we skip ahead to the good stuff, then we waste time figuring out the foundation while we’re building the ship. Or some sort of analogy like that lol
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Yeah, I worked with instructional designers for a while and we had this whole concept of building a floor, then a wall then shelves and hooks, and only then can we start putting the interesting stuff up.
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