fire, ice, clouds, spring
Fire: What’s a scene that you are dying to write?
There's a lot of them. But for the current big WIP, I'm both really hoping to get to part 2 (because part 1 really is just setting up the world the characters inhibit) so that the plot can really begin. And In particular, I'm really hoping to get to the bit where I go a little bit more into detail about the main antagonist's backstory, and how he ended up in his position of power.
Ice: What do you always get stuck on when writing?
It kind of depends. Usually when I'm stuck on writing, it's because I'm feeling tired from other life stuff. But generally I can keep writing and meet my daily goals by just... pushing myself to stick it out until it's done more or less ^^;. This style of writing and word-dumping when I'm too tired to write properly is producing this mess of a first draft which will no doubt be a headache to clean through, but hey, better than nothing.
Clouds: How clearly do you picture a scene before you start writing it down?
I think I generally need a rough idea about what I'm writing towards before I can properly write anything down. I don't think I necessarily picture anything really clearly, but as long as I have the outline, sitting down and writing it out tends to help that outline materialise into something more solid.
Spring: Have you ever scrapped (a huge chunk of) a story to start over? Why did the change come about?
Yeah totally. I think I restarted writing this current WIP like three times before sticking with the current beginning. I needed to get myself to stop rewriting the intro, so I made myself stop at three times. But I think during the rewrite, I will have to redo the beginning now lol. There's one that'll be much more fitting I have in mind now, based on what the story is evolving to be.
I also restarted writing a bunch of my fanfics back in the day. Mostly because back then, I was mostly learning to write by producing huge quantities of stories. And if I couldn't keep writing until the story was done, I took it as a sign that something was wrong.
In particular, I restarted my Sonic Boom Skylanders angst fic at least three times before I got to the final version. This was a part of my NaNoWriMo project that year. I still counted all the words of fic that I wrote but never published towards the word count for the challenge, but the first two versions, when I tried to write them, about halfway through I felt like something was off and I couldn't figure out how to continue. So I just... dropped them. And restarted. Until I got to the final version.
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