instant coffee is big here in australia!! unless you own one of those fancy coffee-shop type machines instant is the way it's done. put a couple spoonfuls of instant coffee, some sugar, boiling water and milk into a mug and stir. i've always thought those coffee-pots (jugs?) were fascinating, though.
I get an idea, then I let it sit around in my head while I test out different possibilities and try desperately to find an ending. Then I make a rough outline, so that I know where I want to go, and then I start writing. I usually write from "beginning" to "end;" I don't write scenes and then try to patch them together. I often go back and edit, add some things, delete others.
I know I'm quite a strange member of the fanfic community because I never post a story until I've got it complete. Because one of my really big pet peeves is a story that never gets finished, especially if I've invested emotionally in it, and want to find out what happens. So I try never to do that to others because I don't want to be a hypocrite when I complain. *g*
Even when I am posting my stories, I'll still be tinkering with them. Sometimes a reviewer will say something that will have me go back and add a line or two for clarification, or just to make the story a bit "richer."
I have been known to take months to write a story, but the first one that I wrote for Daredevil, The Nelson Shot, I completed in only eight days. You know, sometimes I amaze even myself. *g* The Guilty Party raced along at a very similar speed, though it took longer because it's a longer story. It's basically finished, except for the edits that come from reading the reviews, as I said above, so I'll give it a writing time of five weeks. And I've started a new fic, currently untitled, and it's coming along at a good pace as well.
I'm amazed at how fast I'm writing these days; I'm usually a bit slower than this. Maybe writing about superheroes is giving me super writing speed? Wouldn't that be nice. :-)
Officially licensed robot chicken no less. Somewhere in one of their offices is a little Official Marvel Stop Motion room. It's kinda weird to think about, like knowing that writing the Hot Cops theme song was actually someone's job
AYRT-Omg, same! When I wrote part 2, it was in past tense and the rest of the thing was in present, so I had to go back and change it and now it's leaked over into the rest of my writing where it starts out in present/past and then switches to the opposite and it makes sense at the time, but I have go back and fix it.
> write as much as possible before the idea slips away >Think about it while excercising >think about it while working > think about it at 3AM when I have four hours to sleep before my appointment >Update notes in my phone periodically >Try to edit the ensuing mess of good ideas and nonsense >Fail to make it into something legible >Break to rageclean while blasting Schoolhouse Rock >Edit more, get help from gf who can English good >Finish to satisfaction, post >Notice 3+ errors as soon as it's too late to do anything with them >"Close enough for politics" >"phew, that was a hard one. I'm gonna wait a while before trying another" >Immediately find three great prompts >Start again
ayrt: i was really hoping they don't drop foggy and matt doing that. i mean, super senses or not, matt needs to focus to maneuver on his own, and he can't do that 100% of the time. maybe he just wants to chill out and be led sometimes.
Snippets of dialogue generally start the process, I then flesh out a scene and if I like it, then an entire story. Sometimes a concept pops into my head that I'd like, and instead of prompting it I try to write it, but again it usually starts with dialogue. I'm not so much for the descriptions, I usually really struggle to describe a scene. That may be a good thing though, because I'm amazed by how often I'm complemented on my attention to detail.
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