Comments by "p11" (@porky1118) on "The Cult of Done: How to Finish the Thing" video.

2:00 That's basically how I'm writing now. I get an idea, I only write down what I have in mind, I'm not required to finish this scene yet. This really helps me to get started, especially since I sorted my scenes, so I know which scenes are unfinished. Sometimes it's just a single line of text, sometimes it's a few key points, sometimes it's a pretty long key point list describing the scene very detailed, just without caring about the exact wording or if something necessary is missing between the key points. Sometimes I write down the first half of a scene, or the core part of a scene which still needs some proper introduction and ending, sometimes I get more ideas during writing and I write everything down completely. When I'm not really inspired to write, I can still finish some of these drafts by converting key points into real text, which is often pretty straightforward the more detailed it is, or just rereading one of the basically finished scenes and maybe adding some introduction, fixing typos, adding important lines inbetween, or improving some sections I don't like anymore.
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4:20 Yup, that's why I always have dozens of open projects. If I get stuck or lose interest in one, I switch to another one, until I'm motivated again. The only problem is to choose the other one. That's where some kind of priority list might come in handy.
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8:40 I don't completely agree about the "Perfection is boring" point. I want the core logic of my projects to be prefect. I don't want to add many different systems, which are just there to compensate for the shortcomings of other systems. These core systems might be incomplete at first and I might need to improve them later. But I need to start with something close to my idea. I have my program in mind, which uses petri nets to represent the state of an interactive story (with parallel AND alternative paths). I don't want to use finite state machines. If I start with a finite state machine, I will have to refactor a lot to end up with petri nets. I thought about a bunch of different systems and came to the conclusion that either petri nets or multiple connected state machines are the best way to represent interactive stories.
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5:10 I finished my game engine. Now I can start my next project, an actual game. > When you're /DONE/ you can throw it away :)
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4:43 Point 3: Never Edit :)
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2:20 Oh, I always proofread and edit my scenes.
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@dBradbury Most of the time, I don't come back to projects, but rather restart them every few years. That's why I already have created around 5 different versions of World of Goo already :)
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