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For the December Talking Meme:
What does your writing process look like? I'm always curious about the vast variety of ways in which different writers work.yhlee
It's a weird thing to articulate but I will give it a go.
First here is an idea, a seed of something that I want to poke ad and knead and see what comes of it. This wined sup sitting in my brain for a little while and simmering as I do other things.
As this is doing that thing, I will occasionally toy with characters, in some way, see if I have a kind of character I want to see in the setting, or if it's a character, see if there's a setting want to see them interact with. I rarely come up with the plot first and setting first is rare. I'm a character driven person by nature.
So, I have a character and I have a setting, or I have tow characters or something like that. The next thing I do is try and come up with a blurb/summary type thing like I've seen some people do. I've been doing this on and off for years but it helps me come up with a very basic outline and stitch together anything I can come up with.
While I am doing the above, I'm also poking through my music and cobbling together a playlist of some fashion. It can be a couple of songs or it can be like Your Heart In My Teeth that has over 50
Even when I do this, I find that I often write to one song in particular. Usually, it's the main song on the playlist but sometimes it's only tangentially related and just suits the rhythm or mood or something else that clicks in my brain., For my Current Project (a not-quite-ghost-story) I'm using the song I linked to above as my looped track.
I usually have one or two false starts, or I start something, get a couple hundred words in, and then let it sit for a while and realize I need to go tweak the thing. The actual writing only takes a few days, maybe a week at most. I have the habit of knocking out as much as I can in as few sessions as possible and I work in short fiction, so I don't have a lot of words to play around with.
This process might look a little different if I were a novel person but, as of right now, I am so, so not. I love the idea of writing novels, I have a variety of things in my brain that I want to turn into longer work, but I really like short stories and feel most comfortable working in that medium.
Speaking of writing, I wrote a few ficlets yesterday, and after I work on OrigiProject, I'm going to go back to writing more. I'm not making a ton of words on any one thing but it feels good to throw words a ta doc an have them stick in any capacity at all
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For the December Talking Meme:
What does your writing process look like? I'm always curious about the vast variety of ways in which different writers work.
yhleeIt's a weird thing to articulate but I will give it a go.
First here is an idea, a seed of something that I want to poke ad and knead and see what comes of it. This wined sup sitting in my brain for a little while and simmering as I do other things.
As this is doing that thing, I will occasionally toy with characters, in some way, see if I have a kind of character I want to see in the setting, or if it's a character, see if there's a setting want to see them interact with. I rarely come up with the plot first and setting first is rare. I'm a character driven person by nature.
So, I have a character and I have a setting, or I have tow characters or something like that. The next thing I do is try and come up with a blurb/summary type thing like I've seen some people do. I've been doing this on and off for years but it helps me come up with a very basic outline and stitch together anything I can come up with.
While I am doing the above, I'm also poking through my music and cobbling together a playlist of some fashion. It can be a couple of songs or it can be like Your Heart In My Teeth that has over 50
Even when I do this, I find that I often write to one song in particular. Usually, it's the main song on the playlist but sometimes it's only tangentially related and just suits the rhythm or mood or something else that clicks in my brain., For my Current Project (a not-quite-ghost-story) I'm using the song I linked to above as my looped track.
I usually have one or two false starts, or I start something, get a couple hundred words in, and then let it sit for a while and realize I need to go tweak the thing. The actual writing only takes a few days, maybe a week at most. I have the habit of knocking out as much as I can in as few sessions as possible and I work in short fiction, so I don't have a lot of words to play around with.
This process might look a little different if I were a novel person but, as of right now, I am so, so not. I love the idea of writing novels, I have a variety of things in my brain that I want to turn into longer work, but I really like short stories and feel most comfortable working in that medium.
Speaking of writing, I wrote a few ficlets yesterday, and after I work on OrigiProject, I'm going to go back to writing more. I'm not making a ton of words on any one thing but it feels good to throw words a ta doc an have them stick in any capacity at all
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This looks fun, so why not: Leave a word, any word, in the comments below, and I will tell you a fact about myself relating to that word.
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Date: 2018-12-11 11:23 pm (UTC)Also, I'm like you, stories really have to sit and percolate for a long time until they actually get written. It's kind of nice and kind of... really not.
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Date: 2018-12-14 06:18 am (UTC)It was also kind of wasted on me because my eyes were already worse by that point but still, not acquiring that puppet was a Regret.
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Date: 2018-12-17 03:22 am (UTC)