#writing output

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2023 writing output...

500 words in the 'once series' of fairy-tale style b its.

4 K words in the random piecelings that are just getting ideas out of my head.

10 K in 283 poems, making it the first year since I had this tumblr that I didn't do a poem a day. Nov. got busy, and there were other things.

200 K in nanowrimo, including two camps and the event proper.

15 short stories in the magician series, for about 25K in words.

2,500 words in the small jay 'side stories' for the magician series

12 K in an aborted novel idea.

1,200 in other short stories

40 K toward the Ibisian novel

And two different rpg games, whose totals can't be easily measured.

And then 40 sessions of a 'one shot' D&D game.

So busy, though not as much as some previous years.

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Hello! I've given up paper cards and started using Anki thanks to you. I wanted to ask if you write down the words of each card when you study with anki. And what's your opinion of copying texts. Perhaps you're already familiar with it but I'd recommend Futaba's Desk on yt.

Hi! Congrats on starting your Anki journey! I may complain about it a lot, but it has been such an upgrade in my studying method. I hope you stick with it!

I do not copy the text on my vocabulary cards or any text in general; I purely recognize words as a whole and learn their meaning and reading. Right now my goal is to be able to remember, recognize, and read as many text as possible to train the natural SRS. If I tried it with my current setup of 200+ reviews, it will take me a LOT of time and frustration. It's also not pertinent in my current situation to be able to write. That said, it is something that I do want to learn eventually, just not right now when I feel like learning more words is crucial to my gaining comprehension.

You can absolutely practice writing especially if your situation demands it of you, if say you need it for school, work, or for your day to day activities. Otherwise, just know that it takes away a lot of time from you immersing and learning more vocabulary and grammar, especially if you're doing it on Anki where one stroke order written wrong is an automatic fail, if I were grading it. You'll understand this very well when you start to encounter common words with complicated 漢字 like 憂鬱 ゆううつ (JLPT N1, 6145 on Visual Novel frequency, 18,818 on Netflix frequency). I'd much rather know and understand what it is at a glance and move on than to spend time to write it (potentially repeatedly) when the only use for knowing to write it now, when I don't even know if going to Japan is possible anytime soon, is to flex.

I did learn to write in proper stroke order in the very beginning of my journey thanks to the book, Remembering the Kanji, which covers the 2,200 common use characters. However, up to this day, all 2,200 haven't shown up in the 8,500+ words that I recognize. At 20 cards a day, that was about 3 months of my life that could have instead yielded 1,800 new words that I would have been able to read in sooner.

The positive of knowing how to write comes in handy when you need to write something down in order to look it up. So yes at the very least, learn how to recognize radicals and write in proper stroke order. So even though I may not be able to write 憂鬱 top of mind, I can still look it up because I understand how radicals and writing in proper stroke order works.

Kind of off topic, but how I did it and my suggestion to anybody starting out with immersion learning:

Learn to recognize 10-20 new words a day and never more than that or you'll die from doing reviews.

Finish all of your reviews in the morning or whenever you feel like your brain is more awake. If you can spend less than an hour on Anki, the more time you have to immerse where the real learning happens. Immersion is the real SRS; Anki is just the extra tool to help you if you're struggling to remember.

Learn basic stroke order and radicals and quickly move on. Learn actual words instead. Worry about writing output when it has some real life need for you to know how to or when you're at a level of comprehension that everything you consume in the language feels easy.

Start reading something you're very interested in as soon as possible. Embrace ambiguity and just read! It's going to be tough in the beginning, but the more you look up and the more consistent you are with reading, the faster you will improve (see my reading graphs for proof ＼(^o^)／). I personally started reading manga when I had learned about 2000 words, but the sooner the better.

Listen. Just listen. Practice raw listening to the things you've seen before since you don't have to figure out the plot anymore or otherwise read the synopsis for the new stuff. If you're finding it tough to follow, use Japanese subtitles (never English or your Native language subtitles!), but know that that counts more as reading immersion and not listening. Also listen to compressed/condensed audio. These are pure conversation audio files from the shows you've watched without all the music and whitenoise, so its pure listening comprehension but with native audio and context so it should be much easier to follow compared to a podcast or a livestream.

A lot of this comes from both personal experience and hearing the experiences of people much more advanced than I am. If you want to try writing, then go ahead, nobody is stopping you! We all learn differently anyway. The important thing is to be consistent with the things that work for you and learning how to give up on things that hold you back.

Anyway, I hope this helps you. Also, thanks for suggesting Futaba's Desk! Comfy study vlogs for some aesthetic viewing and listening immersion. ( ´∀｀)

[komishares]

My ultimate writer's block (the word count doesn't lie).

Time. A terribly obvious answer. Pathetically so. Nothing revelatory, new or clever. A 'goes without saying' kind of answer so why say it and risk the 'duh' response and rolling of eyes?

Painful truths come painfully round and round again, like a broken turn of a Wheel of Fortune, doomed to have you end up on the same wedge. So here it comes around for the umpteenth time for me, again, not in a revelatory capacity but rather as a repetitious reminder as banal as 'remember to put the dishwasher on again.' The reminder made evident in the tracking of one's word count. Now word count in of itself is not the only metric to measure one's writerly success, published or otherwise but it is the key one in actually getting a manuscript completed. You have to put the words in, otherwise no book/story is completed (another pathetically obvious point).

So in a bid to go forward with clarity (rather than the kind of complexity this kind of subject tends to warrant or we indulge in), I am looking at word count and word count alone to measure the success of me being a writer, in getting the job done. Thanks to the handy 'Writing history' function within Scrivener, I can see that recently, my best time was March of this year, where I wrote 25,000 words. Not a humungous amount, granted but in my own personal context, an unmatched output for years. It is only today that I have had any meaningful output at all - eight months down the line. There is no great mystery to puzzle over here. In March and April I was on sabbatical. I had nothing else to do other than write, go for walks in South Gloucestershire or Somerset, generally feed myself, watch some TV and read. I worried for a hot second I would actually twiddle my thumbs and get precious little writing done but no, I did not. The freedom was such that I knew I would be making good progress if I wrote 2-3 hours solidly and then had the rest of the day to myself. I nearly finished another novel.

This kind of output hadn't been seen since 2014 - a good while ago now, much to my shock. In 2014, I wrote a 120,000 word novel in nine months. In 2014, I worked four days a week. By 2017, I was in a situation for the first time in my adult life: in a full time, five day working week. Like some weird ruse, one day extra sucked up all the time I had. It sounds dramatic when I say it like that but time is a weird trickster and can be rather screwy. Talk to anyone who has gone from working two days in the office to three. Why does that one extra day tip the whole balance of your week off? How is that possible?

I'm not sure why I write this other than to say the only way I get any kind of meaningful writing done is when I clear up my schedule of the day job. Again, nothing clever, interesting or newly insightful. I echo a million other voices who dejectedly know this to be their truth too, who constantly struggle with the balance (enter thoughts like: do I get up earlier and sacrifice sleep? Do I go to writing retreats that encourage me to get the manuscript done? Do I ask my friends to set me deadlines? Do I write for 15-minute bursts a day? Do I write at work when there's 'down time'? Do I reject socialising in the short term and just focus?)

After my 2014 monster output, I wondered if I'd ever get that momentum back again. Was it a flash in the pan kind of deal? Only it did happen. In March 2022. And now every time I pull up the 'Writing history' on Scrivener it will be a voice reminder slapping me upside my head to say: yeah you can't do it unless you ain't working (as much). And then a quieter more fed up voice reminder says: so quit already. Clear that schedule.

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