How do you write?

[Horrible-Void]

Wanted to pick peoples brains.
Do you like to post as you are writing out the story, or do you write it first then post it in bits?

 

[Deleted member 113259]

I write a chapter and then upload it. I'll probably stop doing that after season 1 of my main story though.

 

[Temple]

I write and post. I can't really stock chapters. Hardest thing to do was piling enough chapters before starting Patreon. But as of now, I write and post. No backlogs. I change my mind a lot, so having a backlog feels like a restriction and a waste of time for me.

 

[Nyctoria]

Carefully.

 

[J_Chemist]

I typically write with my fingertips and a keyboard.

More seriously, I write and then post. I don't keep a backlog, usually. Sometimes I write up multiple chapters in a week if I'm motivated and then take a break while maintaining the 1 per week release.

 

[Horrible-Void]

I write a chapter and then upload it. I'll probably stop doing that after season 1 of my main story though.

Any reason?

I write and post. I can't really stock chapters. Hardest thing to do was piling enough chapters before starting Patreon. But as of now, I write and post. No backlogs. I change my mind a lot, so having a backlog feels like a restriction and a waste of time for me.

Fair. My fear with doing that is writing something later that contradicts something I wrote earlier. Is that something you ever worry about and how do you get past it?

I typically write with my fingertips and a keyboard.

More seriously, I write and then post. I don't keep a backlog, usually. Sometimes I write up multiple chapters in a week if I'm motivated and then take a break while maintaining the 1 per week release.

There's my problem, I keep trying to write with my toes lol. Keeping a consistent release schedule is already a problem I'm running into, but I also do most my story writing on the weekends.

 

[TotallyHuman]

I wish I was the kind of serial killer that would send it piece by piece... I mean author. Yes. Author

 

[Tyranomaster]

Always backlog. It's just better.
It's better for your mental health as a writer.
It's better for your reader's experience.
It results in better quality chapters.

Don't succumb to being a dopamine junky. Your story and readers will suffer.

 

[NotOriginal]

I only post a story if it is finished, I will not subject my readers the same fate as many others in not finishing a work. My story is currently 447 chapters long, those bastards are getting that ending.

 

[ElijahRyne]

Wanted to pick peoples brains.
Do you like to post as you are writing out the story, or do you write it first then post it in bits?

I try to backlog as many chapters as possible. It allows me to improve the unreleased chapters and make each arc more cohesive. I used to to just post a chapter when I finished it, but I repeatedly backed myself into a wall.

 

[Rhaps]

I write a chapter and then upload it. I'll probably stop doing that after season 1 of my main story though.

Yeah I'm doing this too. But I won't stop doing it, because thats what make writing fun for me.

 

[melchi]

I don't have a back log either. I've mostly just been writing on the weekends. Trying to keep a consistent pace on workdays was becoming a hassle. But finding a few hours to click away at the keyboard every weekend isn't too much of a lift.

 

[LORD_SHAXX]

I used to write then post. But since I took a break to complete my uni studies and decide to write a backlog for my spare time I'm leaning to the opposite

 

[ArcadiaBlade]

I just write and post on the early days since I usually don't care what i post. Though I tend to edit some mainly grammars and stuff but overall, I just post them the moment I finish writing them. Though I also sometimes stack because I want to make schedules and stuff.

But after the 3 day blackout which coincidentally matches one review bomb that had happened to me, I now carefully watch how I write my chapters to a point where I'm now even scared to post one out of fear that I might end up given a month of blackout out of just posting a wrong chapter because I got too confident that it might not happen twice.

Yeah, I might have a bit of a confidence but I don't straight out court death flags.

 

[NotaNuffian]

Well, I am still following the old method of stockpiling.

I managed to kill myself when:
1. My work is shit and so is the cover.
2. My initial mass release of chapters and subsequent trickling got me no new readers.

 

[Poleg]

With my hands.

 

[Civilian]

I write, edit the same morning I upload, and then upload when its ready or when I run out of time. Helps me break out from writers block, since it keeps me writing constantly.

 

[Fox-Trot-9]

I write and upload. Repeat this over numerous times, and you get novel / volume written.

 

[Maldrasen]

My goal is to keep a backlog of at least a few chapters, but I'm running on zero right now. On the one hand the pressure of not having anything ready to ship helps pressure me into being productive, but it can lead to problems when I might want to change something that happened a couple chapters ago.

 

[TheEldritchGod]

With my eyestalks.