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Darshana Khiani's avatar

Love this post. Never heard this classification of Fun.

Type I: Final stages of revision. Or earlier stages where the light blub has gone off. Ideas in my notebook (few lines, a title that makes me laugh). Collecting/Analyzing feedback --> making to-do list.

Type II: Revising big picture items.

Type 2.5: Taking an existing polished story and having to break it apart and start over. First Drafts.

Type III: Not not knowing what to do or which way to go next. Overworked story.

I've known for some time that I write broadly. Now I have a new word to describe it: individual pursuit. I enjoy it but at the same time you are having to learn new skills every time, hence I feel it takes me longer to get a book to polished state. But I don't think I can or would want to write the same type of story again and again. It wouldn't hold my interest, I think.

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E. B. Goodale's avatar

Wow it is actually so helpful to think about fun on a scale this way. I think as an author/illustrator so much of my work is objectively "fun" but doesn't often feel like it in the moment, although sometimes it does. Now I have a clearer way of explaining this in my brain. Thank you!

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