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Snowflake Challenge-Day 3
Jan. 3rd, 2015 04:03 pmI just came back from wandering in a local bookstore and spending some of my holiday money; Love and Let Spy, a regency romance with a female Bond character and The Invention of Murder about the Victorians and their fascination with murder. I love new books and the possibilities of bookstores.
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Day 3
In your own space, talk about your creative process - from what inspires you to what motivates you to how you manage to break through blocks. Does your process change depending on the type of creating you're doing?
My creative process isn't terribly organized, if the words are there I write. At the moment, I have a lot of google docs that are beginnings that I wrote down but the rest of the work isn't there yet. I can always tell when I'm not in a good place emotionally, because I don't write a lot of fiction. Roleplaying and threading tend to be more reliable for me, but particular characters and longer plots will sometimes fall to the side when I'm putting my mental focus elsewhere. When I was working on fact-checking, my writing shrank because that kind of intense research took up so much mental space. On the other hand, the organic and ever-changing nature of threading is relaxing for me especially for characters that I know so well.
What inspires me is whatever's around me; music, a book, an article, movies, tv, everything will make an idea come alive. One of the best ways I have of focusing on an idea is a road trip, having the time to think is great for my creative process. Prompts are also wonderful for me, because what someone wants will sometimes make something go click in my mind. Whenever I have an idea, I write it down, no matter how small it is and often come back to them. The Jane Austen fic that I posted yesterday was on pause for I think almost a year before I finished it as that's when I figured out how I wanted it to go.
My process doesn't change that much across the various ways I create. I write to get something down on the page, do some editing, then ask someone I trust to reread it and tell me if it makes sense to them, more editing and then post. Sometimes I'll post something without a lot of other looks, but it helps me a lot to have another set of eyes on my work.
Now for day 3 of
snowflake_challenge.Day 3
In your own space, talk about your creative process - from what inspires you to what motivates you to how you manage to break through blocks. Does your process change depending on the type of creating you're doing?
My creative process isn't terribly organized, if the words are there I write. At the moment, I have a lot of google docs that are beginnings that I wrote down but the rest of the work isn't there yet. I can always tell when I'm not in a good place emotionally, because I don't write a lot of fiction. Roleplaying and threading tend to be more reliable for me, but particular characters and longer plots will sometimes fall to the side when I'm putting my mental focus elsewhere. When I was working on fact-checking, my writing shrank because that kind of intense research took up so much mental space. On the other hand, the organic and ever-changing nature of threading is relaxing for me especially for characters that I know so well.
What inspires me is whatever's around me; music, a book, an article, movies, tv, everything will make an idea come alive. One of the best ways I have of focusing on an idea is a road trip, having the time to think is great for my creative process. Prompts are also wonderful for me, because what someone wants will sometimes make something go click in my mind. Whenever I have an idea, I write it down, no matter how small it is and often come back to them. The Jane Austen fic that I posted yesterday was on pause for I think almost a year before I finished it as that's when I figured out how I wanted it to go.
My process doesn't change that much across the various ways I create. I write to get something down on the page, do some editing, then ask someone I trust to reread it and tell me if it makes sense to them, more editing and then post. Sometimes I'll post something without a lot of other looks, but it helps me a lot to have another set of eyes on my work.
