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wishingwell44Day 11: Talk about your creative process
This discussion of how people write (or create) I feel like has been coming up a lot this week. Between talking online with friends, and one of my most recent posts about my recent frustration with writers block and character syntax I guess I think I can say that when I write I need a linear process. The way I write I feel as though I need to build up emotion or have "past experiences" enforce what a character is going to do (or not do).
I think it has to do with my own way of self. I have anxiety. A lot of fucking anxiety, and the only way I deal with things is drawing on past experiences and using that to my advantage to deal with something, and when I don't know how to deal with things - panic ensues. If I jump around from scene to scene, it won't work. How am I supposed to know how Character A will react to something Character B when it Plot Device A hasn't happened? How will Character A react to Plot Device A? Things could change.
Character A could originally be feeling semi-okay with the events from Plot Device A, but when writing it and the event occurs, Character A could react completely differently and that scene could change. I'm a very linear person. Things need to happen in order, and if they don't chaos ensues.
I'm also a very visual learner, and it shows when writing. I have to plot out the whole story, and then fill in between. If I don't - I get lost. I could write four chapters per point, or I could write 12. As long as I hit those notes then the story could be fulfilled. I also need visual representation on how a character talks - more so on page (since I usually write comic book characters or characters from literature) as auditory representation doesn't quite work. I only tend to struggle with motivation if I hit writer's block, but once that writers block is removed, It tends to be smooth sailing.
Things sometimes don't work out. I re-write chapters about three times. Initial draft, after someone looks it over (or if I re-read it) and then re-write words or sections right before I post it. It allows for my thoughts to just get out there, restructured and then fine tuned.
This discussion of how people write (or create) I feel like has been coming up a lot this week. Between talking online with friends, and one of my most recent posts about my recent frustration with writers block and character syntax I guess I think I can say that when I write I need a linear process. The way I write I feel as though I need to build up emotion or have "past experiences" enforce what a character is going to do (or not do).
I think it has to do with my own way of self. I have anxiety. A lot of fucking anxiety, and the only way I deal with things is drawing on past experiences and using that to my advantage to deal with something, and when I don't know how to deal with things - panic ensues. If I jump around from scene to scene, it won't work. How am I supposed to know how Character A will react to something Character B when it Plot Device A hasn't happened? How will Character A react to Plot Device A? Things could change.
Character A could originally be feeling semi-okay with the events from Plot Device A, but when writing it and the event occurs, Character A could react completely differently and that scene could change. I'm a very linear person. Things need to happen in order, and if they don't chaos ensues.
I'm also a very visual learner, and it shows when writing. I have to plot out the whole story, and then fill in between. If I don't - I get lost. I could write four chapters per point, or I could write 12. As long as I hit those notes then the story could be fulfilled. I also need visual representation on how a character talks - more so on page (since I usually write comic book characters or characters from literature) as auditory representation doesn't quite work. I only tend to struggle with motivation if I hit writer's block, but once that writers block is removed, It tends to be smooth sailing.
Things sometimes don't work out. I re-write chapters about three times. Initial draft, after someone looks it over (or if I re-read it) and then re-write words or sections right before I post it. It allows for my thoughts to just get out there, restructured and then fine tuned.
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Date: 2019-01-11 07:43 pm (UTC)If I jump around from scene to scene, it won't work. How am I supposed to know how Character A will react to something Character B when it Plot Device A hasn't happened? How will Character A react to Plot Device A? Things could change.
This, so hard!
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Date: 2019-01-11 07:47 pm (UTC)Is there an official support group for writers like us? lol!
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Date: 2019-01-12 12:15 am (UTC)