Late progress update, tl;dr edition
I know absolutely no one cares about my writing process but I’m going to share today, anyway. Feel free to skip this post and find something more interesting to do.
So. I am a plotter. A planner. I’m not the type to just jump in and do something without a plan, without considering all the permutations and worst case scenarios. Same goes for my writing. By the time I get to the actual writing, I have brainstormed and outlined and plotted and planned. And the plot outline has been revised and expanded multiple times.
Without getting bogged down in too many boring details too late, I know my goes something like this: 1) Brainstorm new idea for weeks in my journal while working on other projects. 2) Gather up brainstorming notes in place/file and organize them into categories (scene ideas, character notes, background, world building etc.) 3) Do a deeper character study for each main character. 4) Organize scene ideas into a rough outline. 5) Fill in outline with missing scenes. 6) expand on each scene idea so that it that it has a goal or purpose. Also a beginning, middle and end. 7) Optional, sometimes if I’m stuck or block, I will hand write out the scene before typing it up into the official first draft.
So why I am I boring everyone to death with the details of my creative process? Because I am freaking out a little. I did not do any of this with my yuletide fic. Well, I spent a couple of days brainstorming and had a very rough idea of a structure in mind. But when I sat down to do step 2 and organize my notes, I found myself hand writing the first scene.
Three days later, I had a lot of handwritten pages and a complete story. It took me another three days to type it up. But the first draft of my Yuletide fic is down. Longer than my original 1-3k plan. I’m not going to post word count, because I don’t want to give anything away until after the reveal, but it’s more than I expected.
On a completely different note, I have finally started my Harry Potter fic for bigbangbuffet. 719 words but it’s a start.
So. I am a plotter. A planner. I’m not the type to just jump in and do something without a plan, without considering all the permutations and worst case scenarios. Same goes for my writing. By the time I get to the actual writing, I have brainstormed and outlined and plotted and planned. And the plot outline has been revised and expanded multiple times.
Without getting bogged down in too many boring details too late, I know my goes something like this: 1) Brainstorm new idea for weeks in my journal while working on other projects. 2) Gather up brainstorming notes in place/file and organize them into categories (scene ideas, character notes, background, world building etc.) 3) Do a deeper character study for each main character. 4) Organize scene ideas into a rough outline. 5) Fill in outline with missing scenes. 6) expand on each scene idea so that it that it has a goal or purpose. Also a beginning, middle and end. 7) Optional, sometimes if I’m stuck or block, I will hand write out the scene before typing it up into the official first draft.
So why I am I boring everyone to death with the details of my creative process? Because I am freaking out a little. I did not do any of this with my yuletide fic. Well, I spent a couple of days brainstorming and had a very rough idea of a structure in mind. But when I sat down to do step 2 and organize my notes, I found myself hand writing the first scene.
Three days later, I had a lot of handwritten pages and a complete story. It took me another three days to type it up. But the first draft of my Yuletide fic is down. Longer than my original 1-3k plan. I’m not going to post word count, because I don’t want to give anything away until after the reveal, but it’s more than I expected.
On a completely different note, I have finally started my Harry Potter fic for bigbangbuffet. 719 words but it’s a start.