Comments | subieko: I continue to wangst about careers.

subieko

I continue to wangst about careers.

Mar 25, 2013 20:44

I feel like I do this a lot lately. Which is not unreasonable I guess considering I'm in graduate school...
( Sometimes I wish I was one of those bloggers who are actually entertaining. )

jobs, writing, grad school adventures, life, romhacking, nanowrimo

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indongcho March 26 2013, 03:21:36 UTC

Except that because I tend to write in my head more than on paper most of the time, what happens is that I start to think of the character more the way they are after the change. And then I have a hard time thinking or writing about them as they were initially. So there's this characterization shift that tends to throw things off. This may be because rather than writing things I tend to just think about them, though.I really, really don't mean to be dismissive, but...huh. I mean, I find that interesting I guess because I have a very different experience of it? I also headwrite more than I actually write stuff down (trying to work on that!), and I actually find it really fun to go from point A to point B or D and see how a character is so different to how they started out ( ... )

subieko March 26 2013, 03:56:57 UTC

You're not dismissive at all, haha, I'm actually interested to find someone else who does the same thing as me. I don't know many writers in person and I've never asked them if they also constantly daydream plots because I was like...what if that's actually weird lol ( ... )

guardians_song March 26 2013, 17:40:50 UTC

Hm - chipping into the discussion, I'd probably be a much better writer if... I lived by myself, had no commitments, and was able to stay awake for over 24 hours on a regular basis... :\ I tend to write best in one long trance state when listening to one or two songs on repeat the entire time, because I lose the thread otherwise. Best longfics have been when I've been able to continue that state despite sleep periods interrupting that trance. Sounds like you're kind of similar?
I can edit afterwards (and do), but I need to get the raw content out first. And that's the hard part for me.

I'm able to daydream about a portion of a scene I've written if... the version in-document is so bad that I don't regard it as the 'canon'. :\ The Hand is somewhat in that stage - it's a very difficult Harry Potter darkfic, and it is so easy to botch any given section, partly because it relies on visual horror (at which I am miserably bad). It is ridiculously hard to make a scene the concrete version in that one, heh...

*/babbling*