Writing Myths: Writing in One Big Torrent

Jane Sumerset

It is true that writing is not just an ordinary thing to do. It takes a lot of responsibilities too. As a writer, you need to know these responsibilities for your writing. These things should be the real and factual one and don’t just believe with mythical explanations.

Writing requires a deep understanding about the topic. This is the only way for you to know your writing subject better and how will you discuss it to your readers.

Whether you like your topic or not, you still need to get to the facts straight and make sure to understand it well.

Understanding your subject helps you to visualize such thoughts that will help you in making your content an interesting one. Most writers usually stuck in the middle of their writing. It is really hard when you ran out of words while writing.

However, identifying your subject further will always do the trick. This way, you can think widely and come up with a lot of ideas for your content.

The only thing that you should avoid while writing is to believe with some writing myths that others are telling you just because it assures you to write in one big torrent.

Some people assert that inspired writing can only occur in large blocks. While I understand the source of this belief (I have experienced stretches of hours when I can write no wrong), it’s a myth that isn’t necessarily accurate.

How much time is “large” anyway? Is five hours a large enough block of time? How about eight? Or ten?

Having a large block of time to write is advantageous in many ways. You get sufficiently warmed up, for one. Given a long enough time, you can also eventually hit your stride. Plus, you don’t have to go through all the trouble of reviewing what’s been written, where you are in the work and all of those activities that come as part of writing in smaller chunks.

In a perfect world, you’ll all have all the time in the world to write in one big torrent. Unfortunately, most of us have responsibilities that stretch far beyond the confines of the writing we produce. As such, rarely do we have large blocks of time to invest in such manner.

Many students who go by this practice usually end up procrastinating till deadline. That’s because large blocks of time are hard to come by. As such, we recommend writing in short blocks of time regularly, such as 1 hour every morning for the next five days, instead of looking for one big block of five hours.

Will you be as productive writing in these shorter time spans? Probably not, especially if you’re used to working straight for extended hours. Regardless, we believe it’s a better solution than waiting to find that long, continuous blank slate in your schedule. Once you get the hang of it, you’ll likely be producing at a similarly prolific rate too with the help of a solid writing software.

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