I'd be interested in a peek at the writing decisions log, personally! Because I feel like my writing process is a lot of dumb floundering around and having to forcibly learn the same lessons over and over again. Maybe I'll learn better from someone else's mistakes, because my own are clearly not cutting it :P
Did recently read a book on revision that, aside from the obligatory Parts Where This Writing Book Gets Hella Dogmatic about Shit that Doesn't Matter, put forth one suggestion I like: if you know what happens next but just realized you haven't set up the proper preconditions, just fuckin' proceed with writing as if you already had done the work, and fix it in post. By the time you've gotten through the whole thing in some form you may have a better idea how to backfill or make any structural tweaks.
(The discussion of HOW to fix things in post - surprisingly given the book's ostensible topic, lol - was a little handwavey and shallow. Just suggests a couple of different levers you can pull and then "idk go do something else for a bit and come back, you'll figure it out.") (Dude also bought WAY harder into the "shitty first draft" ethos than I ever will, so YMMV.)
(and I also signed up for GYWO this year and am also not really feeling it, ahaha)
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Did recently read a book on revision that, aside from the obligatory Parts Where This Writing Book Gets Hella Dogmatic about Shit that Doesn't Matter, put forth one suggestion I like: if you know what happens next but just realized you haven't set up the proper preconditions, just fuckin' proceed with writing as if you already had done the work, and fix it in post. By the time you've gotten through the whole thing in some form you may have a better idea how to backfill or make any structural tweaks.
(The discussion of HOW to fix things in post - surprisingly given the book's ostensible topic, lol - was a little handwavey and shallow. Just suggests a couple of different levers you can pull and then "idk go do something else for a bit and come back, you'll figure it out.") (Dude also bought WAY harder into the "shitty first draft" ethos than I ever will, so YMMV.)
(and I also signed up for GYWO this year and am also not really feeling it, ahaha)