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Re: What's your Creative Process?

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I'm a very visual person, and for me it usually starts with something I see in my head. Sometimes it's literally like a scene starts playing like a little mind-movie. I call those my "scene flashes". And then it's easy to just sit down and write the characters talking in my head. (Okay, that sounds a little schizophrenic, but I swear it's innocuous. They don't tell me to do things. :-P)

Sometimes it's just that scene that ends at some point, and then I need to stop writing, sit back, and really ponder where I wanna go or what the characters would do/say next. And sometimes it pours out all at once until the fic/chapter is done. (This is usually means I don't get as much sleep as I should, cause I can only really write in the evening, and it's not like my brain is on a sensible schedule.)

It rarely happens that I plan my fics or draw sketches or schedules or storyboards or anything like that. I think I've only done that once or twice, for very long, more complicated fics where I needed to figure out what was happening when (like on which weekdays) in order not to mess up the timeline.

And when I have ideas that I can't write right away, I just put down notes at the end of the story to flesh out later.

I usually also write chronologically, cause that's just how my brain works. I've been known to flesh out a few things further down the line if I get inspired and don't wanna lose the thread, but then I always find it kinda annoying to have to go back and fill in the blanks.

Hope that answers your question. :-)