Post by thelunarfox on Oct 11, 2009 18:03:37 GMT -5
I think this deserves its own thread, though it's come out of Stacey's Creativity, Genius, and muses thread.
I'm totally interested in your writing processes, not just how you do the rough draft and move onto the next draft, though I am curious about that too. What I want to know is how ideas come to you.
In the video, the woman giving the lecture talks about her poet friend who could feel the poem coming and would then have to find a pencil and a paper right away to jot the poem down as it moved through her or else she would lose that poem forever.
Personally, when I'm in a phase like this where I want to write, generally, scenes come to me. It could be anything. It may be a quote that starts the whole thing. A line will pop into my head, then something will follow that. Usually by the third line, I say, "Wait-- this could be something." Then I pause it until I get to a computer. (Has to be a computer because those scenes can move fast and I loose half the scene if I hand write it. Once I write it down, the scene isn't usually as vivid as it was before I wrote it, so I have to get everything right away.)
When I was younger (and still to a degree now), scenes would come as I lay my head down to sleep. And they would come each night. Every night I'd see more of the scene, I could look around and see the setting (rarely anything fancy, this is me after all). It would almost haunt me until I just sat down and wrote it. Then the next part would come.
I found that most of my stories, when I'm doing it right, end up branching out. Every character had a story, and I could follow them to see what exactly their story was. Because that was the part I was interested in. How exactly they ended up in that scene and why.
The actual process of writing was pretty simple for me. I'd just write it out and leave it alone for a day. Now I print out stories because I've found that seeing them is actually much more effective. And I can scribble and write as thoughts come to me.
I'm totally interested in your writing processes, not just how you do the rough draft and move onto the next draft, though I am curious about that too. What I want to know is how ideas come to you.
In the video, the woman giving the lecture talks about her poet friend who could feel the poem coming and would then have to find a pencil and a paper right away to jot the poem down as it moved through her or else she would lose that poem forever.
Personally, when I'm in a phase like this where I want to write, generally, scenes come to me. It could be anything. It may be a quote that starts the whole thing. A line will pop into my head, then something will follow that. Usually by the third line, I say, "Wait-- this could be something." Then I pause it until I get to a computer. (Has to be a computer because those scenes can move fast and I loose half the scene if I hand write it. Once I write it down, the scene isn't usually as vivid as it was before I wrote it, so I have to get everything right away.)
When I was younger (and still to a degree now), scenes would come as I lay my head down to sleep. And they would come each night. Every night I'd see more of the scene, I could look around and see the setting (rarely anything fancy, this is me after all). It would almost haunt me until I just sat down and wrote it. Then the next part would come.
I found that most of my stories, when I'm doing it right, end up branching out. Every character had a story, and I could follow them to see what exactly their story was. Because that was the part I was interested in. How exactly they ended up in that scene and why.
The actual process of writing was pretty simple for me. I'd just write it out and leave it alone for a day. Now I print out stories because I've found that seeing them is actually much more effective. And I can scribble and write as thoughts come to me.