#my personal process

[ettawritesnstudies]

My Personal Process: Worldbuilding, and Where to Start?

When I first started writing this post, I thought it was going to be an easy one to write. When I first started worldbuilding the world of Laoche, I found a bunch of question lists I liked online, …

Have you ever looked at a huge worldbuilding questionnaire and felt overwhelmed? Did you think it was overkill, only to find a plot hole later because you missed a crucial piece of information? Or are you stuck in a worldbuilding loop, unable to stop tinkering long enough to start the first draft? I have done all those things. Several times. I spent years reinventing the wheel until I learned how to focus on the project's needs, so I want to share that process today. This isn't just another list, but a guide on what you really need to know and some methods to go about finding it. I hope it's helpful!

[ettawritesnstudies]

My Personal Process: Developing Characters

Welcome to the first of my Personal Process Posts, talking about how I develop characters!

January is Characterization month on my website so today's blog post talks about how I personally go about developing my characters in the outline stage. This isn't a How To Guide, since everyone's methods will be different, but sometimes seeing how another writer goes about some aspect of the creative process can be useful for learning new tools to adapt and use in your own writing. I hope you find it useful :)

Which of your characters has changed the most since you first started writing them? For me, it's Alric. He's one of the villains in Laoche, and he went from being a very one dimensional evil wizard who sat atop his tower going "muahahahaha" to being a desperate student with a complex motivation and a redemption arc.

[ettawritesnstudies]

My Personal Process: Outlining/Plotting

Welcome to the second entry in this series of Personal Process posts! This series is keeping with the theme of the month, and for February I’m going to be talking about outlining and plotting…

This week’s post is a cross-post of This Guide I wrote here on tumblr. Recently, it got a lot of attention after a few larger blogs reblogged it and a lot of people seemed to like it, so I thought I’d upload an updated version! If you don’t mind giving this a reblog too so it can reach the people who’d like to see it, that would be really appreciated! 

[writerinafury]

I don’t put a lot of description into my first drafts. I tend to add it in on my second ones because I just want to pump the story out as fast as I can. Writing that kind of detail that makes you see the world requires a lot of concentration for me so I focus on the story telling part first, unless of course the details are plot specific.