Fandom Snowflake Challenge 8
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cmk418Challenge #8
Talk about your creative process.
I'm generally a pantser. I rarely plan for many of the things I write because most of them are under 500 words and can be written as soon as I have a prompt and character or fandom matched up. During NaNo most of the planning I do involves writing down character and place names with short descriptions and keeping them in a separate folder that I can consult when I forget the name of the main character's niece. I might do a sketch outline for the first few scenes just to get the ball rolling when November 1 rolls around.
I don't do a lot of world-building because I come to writing from a screenwriting background which means being very bare-bones on the description of characters, settings, and actions. I do tend to write dialogue-heavy stories because dialogue is where I'm strongest. Action scenes or love scenes are things I'm trying to get better at but still haven't mastered. I usually have a visual of the character in my head when I write, but I rarely put that to paper.
I journal in the morning in a plain spiral bound notebook that I stock up on during the back-to-school sales in August. The other writing usually is done on my laptop in my bedroom. I can write while listening to music or a hockey game or in complete silence.
If I'm writing a novel as I've attempted every November since 2009, I write using the Comic Sans font. It's easier to read and for some reason, makes the writing go faster.
Talk about your creative process.
I'm generally a pantser. I rarely plan for many of the things I write because most of them are under 500 words and can be written as soon as I have a prompt and character or fandom matched up. During NaNo most of the planning I do involves writing down character and place names with short descriptions and keeping them in a separate folder that I can consult when I forget the name of the main character's niece. I might do a sketch outline for the first few scenes just to get the ball rolling when November 1 rolls around.
I don't do a lot of world-building because I come to writing from a screenwriting background which means being very bare-bones on the description of characters, settings, and actions. I do tend to write dialogue-heavy stories because dialogue is where I'm strongest. Action scenes or love scenes are things I'm trying to get better at but still haven't mastered. I usually have a visual of the character in my head when I write, but I rarely put that to paper.
I journal in the morning in a plain spiral bound notebook that I stock up on during the back-to-school sales in August. The other writing usually is done on my laptop in my bedroom. I can write while listening to music or a hockey game or in complete silence.
If I'm writing a novel as I've attempted every November since 2009, I write using the Comic Sans font. It's easier to read and for some reason, makes the writing go faster.
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Date: 2026-01-16 11:13 am (UTC)Me too! I have to use Verdana for writing, for some reason. Otherwise it doesn't feel like it's 'mine'. As if I were handwriting but the letters came out unlike my usual scrawl.