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pink_ink! I’d love to read everyone else’s answers!
1. Do you write your first draft by hand, or digitally? I never write fiction or anything for fic by hand. Oddly enough, it’s been like this ever since I started writing fanfic in 2003, even though before that I wrote by hand everything that was not for work or studies. Before my hiatus I wrote (my few) notes for fanfic only on my laptop, but now I write notes and corrected versions of lines on my phone when I’m reading drafts while in bed or on a bus or walking.
2. Do you have a writer’s notebook? Only empty ones – two new Harry Potter themed books I’ve got as presents and wanted to start using for something fandom related (one of them even with Sirius’s wanted-poster in the cover).
3. Planner, pantser, or planter? (https://www.dawnbrookespublishing.com/2019/02/09/plotter-pantser-or-planter/) Close to a total pantser at least in the case of an individual short story (one-shot). When I wrote my chaptered fic (a post-OotP novel) in 2003 – 2010, I wrote down some brief notes perhaps once in the middle and once towards to end of the story, listing issues that needed to come up again to be resolved. A year ago I wrote a list of such important events and periods in my characters’ lives which I wanted to be dealt with in short stories, and I make a mark once I’ve covered something. When starting a story I’m sometimes not very much more aware than the viewpoint character is of how the current problem will be solved.
4. What is your favorite place to write? My balcony in summer, otherwise an armchair by my living room window.
5. What is your least favorite place t
o write? Under my umbrella.
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Edited on 22nd February to add a link to an explanation of "planner, pantser or planter" and to confess some more punctuation love.
pink_ink! I’d love to read everyone else’s answers!1. Do you write your first draft by hand, or digitally? I never write fiction or anything for fic by hand. Oddly enough, it’s been like this ever since I started writing fanfic in 2003, even though before that I wrote by hand everything that was not for work or studies. Before my hiatus I wrote (my few) notes for fanfic only on my laptop, but now I write notes and corrected versions of lines on my phone when I’m reading drafts while in bed or on a bus or walking.
2. Do you have a writer’s notebook? Only empty ones – two new Harry Potter themed books I’ve got as presents and wanted to start using for something fandom related (one of them even with Sirius’s wanted-poster in the cover).
3. Planner, pantser, or planter? (https://www.dawnbrookespublishing.com/2019/02/09/plotter-pantser-or-planter/) Close to a total pantser at least in the case of an individual short story (one-shot). When I wrote my chaptered fic (a post-OotP novel) in 2003 – 2010, I wrote down some brief notes perhaps once in the middle and once towards to end of the story, listing issues that needed to come up again to be resolved. A year ago I wrote a list of such important events and periods in my characters’ lives which I wanted to be dealt with in short stories, and I make a mark once I’ve covered something. When starting a story I’m sometimes not very much more aware than the viewpoint character is of how the current problem will be solved.
4. What is your favorite place to write? My balcony in summer, otherwise an armchair by my living room window.
5. What is your least favorite place t
o write? Under my umbrella.
( Twenty more under the cut )
Edited on 22nd February to add a link to an explanation of "planner, pantser or planter" and to confess some more punctuation love.
