Randomly Mine: Speedbump

There's a common piece of writing advice. Writing is in the rewrite. The suggestion being, that when booting up Microsoft Word, you type what comes to mind and don't stop until you're physically incapable of producing another thought. You should be writing paragraphs like you're playing Type of the Dead on Expert.

No pause, no hesitation, just everything that comes to mind immediately put on the page, and you decide later what to keep and discard.

I'm doing that right now.

And I don't quite know how to do it with my normal scripts, because they're reliant on information, and information isn't something you just make up along the way, but something you follow. I can't relentlessly hammer on the keyboard without verifying each sentence, as if I don't, there's potential to spend literally all day on a document that's founded on misinformation, and crumbles the next day.

Perhaps it's not even that and is instead the pressure.

When I write these posts to Patreon, I'm secure in knowing that not only is their viewership a fraction of what I ordinarily get, they're also being read by the most discerning fans, people who wouldn't take everything I say as gospel and point inconsistencies respectfully where they exist.

I remember years ago being in a Discord call with somebody who I didn't know, and they didn't know me, but when the conversation moved to the subject of Halo 3: ODST, the man quoted me word for word when talking about its story. It was immensely flattering but also quite scary.

What if I didn't agree with that point anymore?

What if that point was completely misinformed?

Ahhhhhhhh!

That likely is the core reason why I'm so careful when writing videos, but at the same time, it's getting to the point where they take longer and longer to make, and is effecting my writing in-general. Even with fictional scripts I write in spare time, I find myself pausing every other word to verify information that doesn't actually exist, because it's fictional. It is like a road with endless speedbumps, impossible to generate any sense of flow.

But perhaps by writing these documents on the regular, where I feel free and more relaxed to hammer these sentences out, hopeful their honesty connects with people, that I can translate some of this, not all, but some of this to my more popular work.