Snowflake Challenge day 3
Work has been very hectic... I fell asleep on the couch last night with still so much to do. The weekend was spent on checking php codes to figure out why e-mails were not sent...
Anyhows:
Day 3
In your own space, talk about your creative process - from what inspires you to what motivates you to how you manage to break through blocks. Does your process change depending on the type of creating you're doing?
My creative process... creativity comes in many forms for me. It can either range from writing/drawing/cooking in the spur of the moment to planned writing. The latter I absolutely must do, otherwise I will feel very unhappy because there are always a gazillion things to do for me. And I do need those moments to be creative.
A year ago I was doing weekly drawings for my son as an aid so that he could tell how his weekend went. Visualising things helped him enormously so sometimes I ended up drawing a favourite character of his. But as he has grown and handles language better, I only have to write down keywords of the weekend for him. No more drawings for him. The past months both my kids claimed my pencils so this Christmas I got a new set under the Christmas tree. So let's see if I can find time for that again. Time is the keyword here and creativity cannot be mangled in "Now I have the time, so now I must write/draw ect. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. And to get the peace for it helps too.
This year's nano it worked, but then again I had been sitting on that story for so long, I had everything thought out, research done so so long ago that I could just sit down and write write... just don't ask about the state of our household though, I am still catching up with Mt Washmore (and a broken washingmachine did not help either).
But what if it works, what inspires me. It can be basically anything. It can be an observation around me, a song, a line that pops up, re-reading something, writing for a prompt/exchange. When I can, I will pass on nice bunnies on to someone else. :)
So usually I write with a headset on, if I won't do that, my husband will continue to interrupt me with his things (even though he still will jump up and down, wave frantically because he needs to tell me something about a game/anime show ect). I have my playlists for writing in Spotify... if the flow doesn't come, I also end up playing a mindless game of Mahjong or a jig saw puzzle, just to empty my mind by filing away random thoughts that do block the writing process. I try to do as much as research prior, but sometimes that can't be helped and suddenly you find yourself emerged in Gondor culture. But music helps creating the me-space for me.
As I write, I write from word and tend to keep as many other programmes closed. I can be disciplined that way and also see through the end when I am writing for a deadline, but after that I need time away from the story. Or from a first draft for a clean break. It needs to simmer for a while.
How I write, it utterly depends on the story, the form. I can write quick ficlets and vignettes, but can edit away endlessly with a drabble where every word is carefully weighed, pondered upon the the sentence structure and as a whole to estimate the impact. For novel writing, on a good day I can make 2k. The next time I can work on it, I first tinker a bit away, edit here and there, re-read parts. It can also be that while thinking about a novel, that I go back and make changes here and there. This is only for a first draft. The second draft is more about the piece as a whole, how the chapters connect, development within a story. During this part I start to give my chapters to my editor (who by the way shares my writing dropbox folder and immediately knows if I am working on something - which then usually leads to an excited pounce :)), with her I basically share anything. My plans, my dreams, my outlines... we discuss if something is feasible or not. And I also get a firm kick now and then. ;)
Art that I work on... no, that usually gets posted as finished pieces to deviant art. And yeah it has been a while. I also no longer have a good photo camera, sometimes I come across funny scenes while on my way to work and my mobile serves as a camera.
Some recent photography:
For 6 months an artist got to show water-art in a moat nearby work. One of them was a small wooden submarine.
Then some months later, the sub was flopped around by vandals and the artists put an hilarious sign on it that said: Kaplow!
I just had to take a picture.
Monday mornings I take a small detour while cycling to work, just as a treat I will cycle through a part of our medieval inner city. So sometimes I stop to snap a picture:
And two of those drawings I made for my son:
Spyro the dragon on a skateboard.
And a weekend summary with a quick sketch of my son, nothing fancy:
Anyhows:
Day 3
In your own space, talk about your creative process - from what inspires you to what motivates you to how you manage to break through blocks. Does your process change depending on the type of creating you're doing?
My creative process... creativity comes in many forms for me. It can either range from writing/drawing/cooking in the spur of the moment to planned writing. The latter I absolutely must do, otherwise I will feel very unhappy because there are always a gazillion things to do for me. And I do need those moments to be creative.
A year ago I was doing weekly drawings for my son as an aid so that he could tell how his weekend went. Visualising things helped him enormously so sometimes I ended up drawing a favourite character of his. But as he has grown and handles language better, I only have to write down keywords of the weekend for him. No more drawings for him. The past months both my kids claimed my pencils so this Christmas I got a new set under the Christmas tree. So let's see if I can find time for that again. Time is the keyword here and creativity cannot be mangled in "Now I have the time, so now I must write/draw ect. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. And to get the peace for it helps too.
This year's nano it worked, but then again I had been sitting on that story for so long, I had everything thought out, research done so so long ago that I could just sit down and write write... just don't ask about the state of our household though, I am still catching up with Mt Washmore (and a broken washingmachine did not help either).
But what if it works, what inspires me. It can be basically anything. It can be an observation around me, a song, a line that pops up, re-reading something, writing for a prompt/exchange. When I can, I will pass on nice bunnies on to someone else. :)
So usually I write with a headset on, if I won't do that, my husband will continue to interrupt me with his things (even though he still will jump up and down, wave frantically because he needs to tell me something about a game/anime show ect). I have my playlists for writing in Spotify... if the flow doesn't come, I also end up playing a mindless game of Mahjong or a jig saw puzzle, just to empty my mind by filing away random thoughts that do block the writing process. I try to do as much as research prior, but sometimes that can't be helped and suddenly you find yourself emerged in Gondor culture. But music helps creating the me-space for me.
As I write, I write from word and tend to keep as many other programmes closed. I can be disciplined that way and also see through the end when I am writing for a deadline, but after that I need time away from the story. Or from a first draft for a clean break. It needs to simmer for a while.
How I write, it utterly depends on the story, the form. I can write quick ficlets and vignettes, but can edit away endlessly with a drabble where every word is carefully weighed, pondered upon the the sentence structure and as a whole to estimate the impact. For novel writing, on a good day I can make 2k. The next time I can work on it, I first tinker a bit away, edit here and there, re-read parts. It can also be that while thinking about a novel, that I go back and make changes here and there. This is only for a first draft. The second draft is more about the piece as a whole, how the chapters connect, development within a story. During this part I start to give my chapters to my editor (who by the way shares my writing dropbox folder and immediately knows if I am working on something - which then usually leads to an excited pounce :)), with her I basically share anything. My plans, my dreams, my outlines... we discuss if something is feasible or not. And I also get a firm kick now and then. ;)
Art that I work on... no, that usually gets posted as finished pieces to deviant art. And yeah it has been a while. I also no longer have a good photo camera, sometimes I come across funny scenes while on my way to work and my mobile serves as a camera.
Some recent photography:
For 6 months an artist got to show water-art in a moat nearby work. One of them was a small wooden submarine.
Then some months later, the sub was flopped around by vandals and the artists put an hilarious sign on it that said: Kaplow!
I just had to take a picture.
Monday mornings I take a small detour while cycling to work, just as a treat I will cycle through a part of our medieval inner city. So sometimes I stop to snap a picture:
And two of those drawings I made for my son:
Spyro the dragon on a skateboard.
And a weekend summary with a quick sketch of my son, nothing fancy: