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Re: What's your Creative Process?

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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. :-)