Yeah, I've tried your second method a couple of times, (very light gray on white just to avoid accidentally clicking into the wrong spot on the window, lol) and it worked okay though I think I was still a little too caught up in whether what I was producing was any good or not to really use it the way it's meant to be used. I'm afraid this is a largely cerebral problem and I'm not really sure how to get past it from that perspective.
I would try write or die but the issue there is that a good portion of my writing process is thinking about where I want to go next and something on that tight a timeline pretty much guarantees consistent failure, which will probably not help much with maintaining a level of confidence in my ability.
I'm less concerned with like, physical ways to get words down on a page and more concerned with how to get over the mental hurdle of "it doesn't matter that this isn't up to your usual standards, it doesn't mean you're a bad writer if you can't spit out a word-perfect first draft the second you sit down to write." Which is a lot harder to quantify a solution for. Maybe I just need to talk to my therapist, lol.
Thank you for your feedback, friend~ I'll probably pull out the "light on white" trick again and see if that gets me anywhere in the next few days.
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Date: 2020-01-27 04:51 pm (UTC)I would try write or die but the issue there is that a good portion of my writing process is thinking about where I want to go next and something on that tight a timeline pretty much guarantees consistent failure, which will probably not help much with maintaining a level of confidence in my ability.
I'm less concerned with like, physical ways to get words down on a page and more concerned with how to get over the mental hurdle of "it doesn't matter that this isn't up to your usual standards, it doesn't mean you're a bad writer if you can't spit out a word-perfect first draft the second you sit down to write." Which is a lot harder to quantify a solution for. Maybe I just need to talk to my therapist, lol.
Thank you for your feedback, friend~ I'll probably pull out the "light on white" trick again and see if that gets me anywhere in the next few days.