On Writing!
Finished my do-me-veela fic and came in at 12k which is AMAZING for me. The only thing that saved this from turning into 50k of me fucking around is the fact that it has absolutely zero plot.
Okay let's talk about fic/fiction writing strategyI've gotten 4 inquiries on my writing process for Azoth now, which is just mind-blowing to me since I never felt like ( Read more... )
Okay let's talk about fic/fiction writing strategyI've gotten 4 inquiries on my writing process for Azoth now, which is just mind-blowing to me since I never felt like ( Read more... )
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I am rather surprised to see that there are some writing processes that are very similar no matter how many words authors write. I've never written more than 2k and yet what a lot of people have talked about I can recognize.
1. Titles: Titles and I are simply not friend. Along with summaries, titles are the last thing I do. I think I'm always scared of making my titles cliche or irrelevant (like maybe in my head it makes perfect sense but to everyone else it doesn't jive with the story).
2. Ending: I'm all the way with you about the ending. I can't start a story without knowing how it's going to end. I end gives me direction for the tone of my story and what to write. Like you, I write towards that scene. I'm participating in femmfest and I know the very last sentence of the story, and just knowing that told me what the opening scene will be.
3. Characters: *ponders* I don't know if I do that. My ( ... )
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I think I may be one of the few people who has a title from the beginning, although I will definitely agree with you on summaries being really hard. I have one fic that I change the summary on, like, every year. I am just never happy with it!
On endings--yes! Exactly! Knowing where I want to end up often gives me the idea for the very first scene, too! *fist bump*
For characters, I think everyone has a different style there. I tend to like "casts of thousands" so fleshing each side character out is part of the fun for me, but I definitely see the appeal in fics that focus only/mainly on one or two characters. It can be very poignant to see a world only from a pairing's POV.
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Sitting down and just writing is a strategy that a lot of people overlook as too obvious, I think, and in the end, they forget to do it at all. So it's great that you don't forget to do that! Sometimes I can agonize over something for three days in a row when I would've been better off just writing through the part I was unsure of and coming back to it later. Taking a break definitely does make it harder to get back into. On the other hand, I've found that taking a *significant* break (a few months) and coming back can sometimes give me a fresh perspective.
I'm so happy that you've got one picked up! Did you go through an agent or directly to a publisher or...?
I think writing fanfic is so much easier for me because I already have so many characters to choose from. I don't know why I can't develop original fiction ones as easily when don't have any problems fleshing out stock HP characters.
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Well... my picked up book is currently on hold. A small press picked me up and that means one man pretty much does the majority of the editing, etc.... and he just had a stroke. I'll probably post more about that later, but I'm just kinda... bowled over about it.
Fanfic is fun and easy and so immediately rewarding. I miss it. It's awesome!
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Do you think you'll write fanfic again or is origific taking up all your head space?
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Do you ever experiment with writing non-linear stories since you're a non-linear writer? Maybe that's your niche!
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