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writethisfanficHullo, y'all. I'm annotated_em and I'll be fielding the check-in posts this week!
For today's discussion, I'm going to draw a bit on my day job. Some writing and composition scholars are really into the idea of the writing process (it usually gets outlined as prewrite-write-rewrite). A writer, they suggest, begins to write by planning what they're going to write about, then writes, and finishes up by revising the composition. Other composition scholars argue from what we call a post-process position, which basically boils down to "It's not that simple" and "Writing is a recursive process." In lay terms, these scholars argue that a writer moves back and forth between these stages of writing--planning, writing a little, planning some more, making an edit or two, writing some more, rewriting as they come up with a new idea or insight, and so forth.
What does your writing process look like? Do you have a linear writing process, one that starts with brainstorming and outlining and proceeds through the writing and editing stages in an orderly fashion? Do you find yourself moving back and forth between the different stages of writing? Do you have your own special stages of writing? (Me, I have the intermediate angst stage that goes somewhere in the middle of the writing stage; it involves developing a sudden hatred for the project and wailing to whomever will listen that it is horrible and terrible and no one will ever read it, why did I think this was a good idea?) The next best thing to writing is writing about one's writing, so tell us all about your process in the comments!
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How did it go today?
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Extremely well!
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Pretty good, I guess.
3 (30.0%)
Eh.
3 (30.0%)
Could have gone better.
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I don't wanna talk about it.
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What did you do today?
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Planned/outlined
3 (30.0%)
Researched
2 (20.0%)
"Researched"
2 (20.0%)
Wrote
5 (50.0%)
Revised
1 (10.0%)
Posted
1 (10.0%)
Rested (upon my laurels or otherwise)
1 (10.0%)
Did something else
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For today's discussion, I'm going to draw a bit on my day job. Some writing and composition scholars are really into the idea of the writing process (it usually gets outlined as prewrite-write-rewrite). A writer, they suggest, begins to write by planning what they're going to write about, then writes, and finishes up by revising the composition. Other composition scholars argue from what we call a post-process position, which basically boils down to "It's not that simple" and "Writing is a recursive process." In lay terms, these scholars argue that a writer moves back and forth between these stages of writing--planning, writing a little, planning some more, making an edit or two, writing some more, rewriting as they come up with a new idea or insight, and so forth.
What does your writing process look like? Do you have a linear writing process, one that starts with brainstorming and outlining and proceeds through the writing and editing stages in an orderly fashion? Do you find yourself moving back and forth between the different stages of writing? Do you have your own special stages of writing? (Me, I have the intermediate angst stage that goes somewhere in the middle of the writing stage; it involves developing a sudden hatred for the project and wailing to whomever will listen that it is horrible and terrible and no one will ever read it, why did I think this was a good idea?) The next best thing to writing is writing about one's writing, so tell us all about your process in the comments!
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Date: Monday, October 1st, 2012 20:59 (UTC)-come up with idea, usually through sudden insight or brainstorming that leads to sudden insight
-mull over idea, this involves jogging or walking many times while thinking
-come to end of ability to mull over, either story is complete in my head, or else I have a few major concepts
-must actually write, being in writing process to further develop story, complete story concepts
-go to research various things while writing
-try to find lumps of time to work on writing
-sometimes stall out, need to find time for long runs/walks by myself to start process again (very often, I am in a place or location where I have the 'writing energy enthusiasm' and cannot write, like about 9 am at work, and I am expected to work and must not write)
-work out snarls in plot, pov, descriptions, etc.
-let the story sit, then edit
-send to beta
-edit, edit, edit
-eventually post
A lot of stories just lose luster, or interest for me. I also find I get to 'tell' a story once. So, I can't tell it in synopsis, I have to hold it in my head until I have laptop in front of me.
I write absolutely linearly. I have almost never jumped around, or written out of order. I wish I could do that, because often the reason I want to write a story is a scene that comes many words after I set something up, and I have to do all those other bits to get to the part that pushes my buttons and makes me happy.