User talk:ColtonC.Cooper

Please post your week 6 Project review today.
 * Best, Stevenarntson

Thanks. I went home today and wrote out like 3500 words. I'm feeling better about it now. I think I'm going to stop trying to write in a linear form, just write the parts that I know and hopefully the rest will come in time. I'm just worried I'm not going to be able to connect them all. I guess we'll see what happens.


 * Colton,

As an addendum to our discussion this morning, two favorite quotes I think about when working on writing. The first is Samuel Beckett: "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. " The second is by Goethe: "Without haste. Without rest."
 * Best, Stevenarntson


 * Hi Colton,

Just wondering how it's coming along, now that we're at midterm? Best! Stevenarntson


 * Colton,

This looks great. Your note on perfectionism may be significant--dissatisfaction with quality can be a significant bugbear to progress on a project this large. As you've already completed 15K words, though, you're making good progress. Generally, I encourage writers of long works not to worry over quality too much. Try as hard as you can as you write, but don't look back. Leave typos, uninspired paragraphs, etc--they'll still be there later when you come back to do editing.
 * Good luck!
 * Stevenarntson
 * P.S. If you're looking to publish this later on through a "real" publisher, we may want to discuss whether or not you'll post the work on the wiki, or perhaps just a short excerpt.