You're welcome. :) It's funny and interesting to hear about others' way of working on writing.
Re: an outline, I very rarely have that. At least on paper. What I do instead is telling the story in my head - most fics of mine essentially begin as day dreams. That way I can quickly figure out if there's enough meat on the story to begin writing it down. Sometimes I don't have the end figured out when I start, but that's less important as long as I have a clear image of the story in my mind. I guess this shows that I probably first and foremost is an artist: I think in images a lot.
I suppose you mean that you do the research before starting, and - in case something new comes up that needs to be researched – stop the writing for a couple of days, and then get back to concentrating.
Yes, that is exactly it. :) But depending on how the writing is going, it can even be such a thing as what the proper word is in English. If I feel it'll destroy my concentration to be looking it up, I just put the Danish words in brackets and go back and look them up later. That is mostly in the first draft-part of my writing, though. At that stage it's more important to get the story out of my head - then I can always begin polishing the text afterwards.
Hey, you should make that post about music and your fanfic!
I will, at some point. :) But I think it's going to be a rather long post. Perhaps during Easter I will do it. There's also a lot of cool 70's music, so I can understand why it feels natural to do so in fics set in that time period. I can also do it with 50's and 60's music, though. It doesn't have to more modern music only. :)
I think I’d find it harder to write something that my character is not supposed to encounter yet.
That's interesting you feel that way. It really doesn't bother me - it bothers me more when I get stuck. Also, I sometimes come back to the "hole" only to realise that that part really wasn't as important as I thought it was and that the stories work just fine without it.
I really do feel lucky, yes. I feel I've grown as a writer from getting feedback from him, although we're not always in agreement about things. But that's good, I guess. If I just adjusted everything he didn't like then it's as if I didn't have enough confidence in my work to begin with. It is my baby, after all, I should be ready to fight for (at least some of) my decisions. :)
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Date: 2020-04-05 01:06 pm (UTC)Re: an outline, I very rarely have that. At least on paper. What I do instead is telling the story in my head - most fics of mine essentially begin as day dreams. That way I can quickly figure out if there's enough meat on the story to begin writing it down. Sometimes I don't have the end figured out when I start, but that's less important as long as I have a clear image of the story in my mind.
I guess this shows that I probably first and foremost is an artist: I think in images a lot.
I suppose you mean that you do the research before starting, and - in case something new comes up that needs to be researched – stop the writing for a couple of days, and then get back to concentrating.
Yes, that is exactly it. :) But depending on how the writing is going, it can even be such a thing as what the proper word is in English. If I feel it'll destroy my concentration to be looking it up, I just put the Danish words in brackets and go back and look them up later. That is mostly in the first draft-part of my writing, though. At that stage it's more important to get the story out of my head - then I can always begin polishing the text afterwards.
Hey, you should make that post about music and your fanfic!
I will, at some point. :) But I think it's going to be a rather long post. Perhaps during Easter I will do it.
There's also a lot of cool 70's music, so I can understand why it feels natural to do so in fics set in that time period. I can also do it with 50's and 60's music, though. It doesn't have to more modern music only. :)
I think I’d find it harder to write something that my character is not supposed to encounter yet.
That's interesting you feel that way. It really doesn't bother me - it bothers me more when I get stuck. Also, I sometimes come back to the "hole" only to realise that that part really wasn't as important as I thought it was and that the stories work just fine without it.
I really do feel lucky, yes. I feel I've grown as a writer from getting feedback from him, although we're not always in agreement about things. But that's good, I guess. If I just adjusted everything he didn't like then it's as if I didn't have enough confidence in my work to begin with. It is my baby, after all, I should be ready to fight for (at least some of) my decisions. :)