#share your process

[moonlitchronicles]

My Writing Process: A Tragic Comedy

Stare at the blank page like it's a portal to another dimension.

Get up. Make tea. Procrastinate by staring out the window dramatically.

Write one sentence. Hate it. Delete it.

Whisper to myself: "I am a disaster. Why do I do this to myself?" 

Finally, write something. It’s okay. It’s not okay. Back to tea.

Introduce a life-or-death situation for my characters.

Think, "Good luck, you poor souls. I sure hope you survive...but I’m not making any promises."

Repeat steps 1-7 forever.

What about you? How does your writing process work? Are you a planner, a pantser, or just winging it with caffeine and vibes? Drop your method below or reblog with your chaos!

[itsoncraft]

18 ways to show your process - Craft

In this blogpost I'd like to give you ideas for how to share your process to get a channel with high diversity. Or just give you ideas on how to start out.

[heartofoshun]

Editing a novel

I ran across this today and I believe it in my heart of hearts. But I don’t do it. I do run most of my fanfic by a couple of people and redraft and nitpick many, many times (I used to do it better, but people drifted away over the the years, fandom is nothing if not a revolving door).

“Do you mean I need to wrestle this beast a dozen more times? You can’t be serious!” you grumble when yet another author brags about the double-digit drafts he penned for his latest best-seller.  Isidra Mencos – The Writing Cooperative

--compare this to “sorry no beta! please r&r!!! I won’t post the next chapter til you do”

The prospect of reviewing a manuscript so many times is enough to make a writer sweat. Even printing your 300-pages opus magnum a dozen times may be daunting. All that good paper wasted… What about the trees?

But there’s no escape. If you want high quality writing you need to put in high quality effort.

I read other people’s stuff that has not been as meticulously edited according to its creators and like it. Procrastinating this morning. How do you edit your fanfic? Once overly lightly for typos or do you work at it in the traditional way?

[itsoncraft]

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[viktorjonsson]

Sketch daily  February 21st - Share Your Process

J.K Rowling

[creativemornings]

"We all see things differently. Not everyone is going to love what we love and that's okay. Release your work to the world even if you don't feel it's done, even if you don't love it." 

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