The writing streams on TikTok are pretty good, and I've kind of gotten used to writing while having people watching/ talking to me, which was tough at first.
Writing is a fairly solitary experience, and having people seeing you spelling mistakes, or having them judge placeholder dialogue is kind of embarrassing, but at the end the day, it's all apart of the process.
Placeholder Stuff
My writing process is something I've refined over the last few years, and it works for me, even though some people might see it as stupid, or wrong.
So, when I'm working on a story, I have the idea/ notes on what I'm doing, and in some cases I'm filling the blanks in between key events, scenes, or moments.
Sometimes the characters decide where they want to go, and what they want to do. Sometimes it derails the hole thing and I have to rework my ideas, and sometimes I have to rewrite sections later on to kind of make the characters do what I want to do.
I'm a fairly fast thinker, and a faster typer, and I'm more concerned with the big picture rather than small details - especially on the initial draft - and because of that, I can tend to add things in that aren't going to stay, just so I can get through a scene and move on, with the intention of coming back to it.
Not all the time, but sometimes, there'll be absolutely terrible lines of dialogue, or even entire sections of scenes that are rough as hell that are there to serve the purpose of moving the story forward.
Sometimes I'm in a dialogue mood, so the dialogue is tight, but the descriptions of places or people suffer, and vice versa.
Letting people see these silly mistakes do make me wonder if people might drop in, read some, and think that I'm a bad writer.
But, after the first stream I've gotten those discouraging thoughts out of my head. The way I look at it, I don't need validation, and I know that the finished product is what matters, not the long winding road that gets to it.
All in all, it's going good, and I've offered to give advice to people looking for it.
I think the hardest thing to do is engaging with people when they join and keeping them around, but for me, the writing is my main priority, while the stream is my second.
If the writing is getting affected from me talking to people, then it kind of goes against the point of doing it in the first place.
