Snowflake Challenge #8

[potentiality_26]

Challenge #8

Talk about your creative process.

My process is a bit of a mess. I'm one of those writers who feels like they're taking dictation, so what usually happens is I'll get a scene (or a piece of a scene) for a story in my mind, and if I'm very lucky that bit will be the beginning and I can proceed semi-linearly from there -- but more often it will be from somewhere in the middle. So I get that bit down on paper or in a Scrivener document, and as I think of more scenes I write those and just keep going until it coalesces into something vaguely 'whole story' shaped, and then I cobble it all together into a fic. 

And I always have a ton of different stories going like this at once, so it's... chaotic, and it takes me a while to finish anything long. (Or anything period, if I'm honest).
     

Comments

[pattrose]

Wow, that is a huge process. I can see why the long ones might be harder for you.

[potentiality_26]

Yeah, it's A Lot.

[scribblemoose]

The more responses I read on this challenge the more I realise that the majority of writers (myself included) are way messier than I thought. I imagined everyone else just wrote from a to b, not half of e then z then a bit of p.... it's comforting and perhaps this is just how it is! Creation is messy. ❤️

[flamingsword]

You know, according to my friends who do software engineering, one of the things that messier processes make is more robust systems? Your method is heckin’ valid, and your audience seem to like it just fine! You have written over 100 fics! Write with confidence; you’ve earned it!