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Post by resaricara on Feb 24, 2014 10:25:53 GMT
Hello! I was wondering, what are your methods when it comes to writing? Do you have a ritual that you do before you start writing to get into the mood to write? What are your advice for those who have a hard time translating ideas to words? And how do you choose your words or the manner that you write? What problems have you encountered as a writer?
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Rivers
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Post by Rivers on Feb 24, 2014 11:19:31 GMT
Hello! I was wondering, what are your methods when it comes to writing? Do you have a ritual that you do before you start writing to get into the mood to write? What are your advice for those who have a hard time translating ideas to words? And how do you choose your words or the manner that you write? What problems have you encountered as a writer? Now I have yet to write something for Adlock (I am so not considering that shitty thing I did during midterms) but I think this is in a general sense, so here I go. I'll do my best to give my point-of-view on your questions. 1.) Eheh, the ritual that I go to before writing is watching some shows (more like watching ASiB for the 120938103th time tbh) and making sure that my surroundings are silent. c: I don't even allow music to play in the background while I'm writing, haha. X) And then, I take a deep breath or something and close my eyes...and relax. After that, oops off to MS Word I go. That, or just do things spontaneously. Write down as much of the idea that you have as fast as you can, and then elaborate on it later. 2.) My advice: start small. You begin on something really general, really broad... Do a bit of world-building without actually putting the fullest of your idea to the paragraph, just until you really get the feel of what you mean to convey to your words. 3.) Hm. I find your question hard to answer, but uh I guess you just go with what instantly comes to mind. :3 Of course, you refine your words over time, depending on dictionaries and authors and references to correct and develop yourself. 4.) Problems? Well, there's writer's block. You just argh lose all inspiration and creative juice and god you have the time and energy to write things but no what to write how to write and basically you are bogged down by all that depressing stuff in real life and writing. ;A;
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resaricara
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Post by resaricara on Feb 24, 2014 12:32:49 GMT
Hello! I was wondering, what are your methods when it comes to writing? Do you have a ritual that you do before you start writing to get into the mood to write? What are your advice for those who have a hard time translating ideas to words? And how do you choose your words or the manner that you write? What problems have you encountered as a writer? Now I have yet to write something for Adlock (I am so not considering that shitty thing I did during midterms) but I think this is in a general sense, so here I go. I'll do my best to give my point-of-view on your questions. 1.) Eheh, the ritual that I go to before writing is watching some shows (more like watching ASiB for the 120938103th time tbh) and making sure that my surroundings are silent. c: I don't even allow music to play in the background while I'm writing, haha. X) And then, I take a deep breath or something and close my eyes...and relax. After that, oops off to MS Word I go. That, or just do things spontaneously. Write down as much of the idea that you have as fast as you can, and then elaborate on it later. 2.) My advice: start small. You begin on something really general, really broad... Do a bit of world-building without actually putting the fullest of your idea to the paragraph, just until you really get the feel of what you mean to convey to your words. 3.) I can't exactly answer this right now. I'll edit this after dinner. :3 4.) Problems? Well, there's writer's block. You just argh lose all inspiration and creative juice and god you have the time and energy to write things but no what to write how to write and basically you are bogged down by all that depressing stuff in real life and writing. ;A; Rivers Do you have a hard time switching from technical/academic writing to creative writing?
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Rivers
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Post by Rivers on Feb 24, 2014 12:49:35 GMT
Edited. :3
To sum it up... Just go with your heart, yo. c:
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aksiznarfnovamrak
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Post by aksiznarfnovamrak on Feb 24, 2014 13:29:35 GMT
Hello! I was wondering, what are your methods when it comes to writing? Do you have a ritual that you do before you start writing to get into the mood to write? What are your advice for those who have a hard time translating ideas to words? And how do you choose your words or the manner that you write? What problems have you encountered as a writer? First of all, I'd like to mention that I do write, but I can't write romance to save my life. So I haven't published any of my feeble attempts at Adlock. As for my methods: I do NaNoWriMo, (I'm Franziska von Karma, normally lurking around in the Beyond 50k Forums) and I tend to have an insane goal for it. I want to do 200,000 words for this upcoming camp session, but I'm loosing steam on coming up with ideas of stuff that would get 200k. So I binge-write during November and April, and either do side projects or revise the other ten months of the year. I tend to get a lot of stuff done this way. Ritual: I have to have music playing. If I don't, my head starts wandering off, and music just keeps me focused. If I'm binge-writing like in April or November, I try to write 1,000 words in under twenty minutes, and usually there's people online that I do word wars with. So I rinse and repeat however many times (last November it was 3-4 times a day, this upcoming April, it'll be 6-7 times a day.) I can normally manage to get 1,000 in somewhere around 20 minutes, so this whole plan is good. If I'm writing a second draft or revising, I fix the major problems and ship it off to my three wonderful beta-readers who fix the stuff I missed. Then I re-write the whole thing again. As for getting in the mood to write, I just sit down, and write. . . I kind of warm up, so to say, and then I can crank out up to 8,000 words per day. I learned some great advice for translating ideas into words: If you just can't find the right word, write down in parentheses some ideas that you have, and then keep going. It's a bit like taking a test, if you get stuck on one question, you should move on and come back to it later. How I choose my words? I kind of just think out my story, and I can type so fast that normally my fingers can keep up with what I'm thinking. I guess it's like the words just come to me. What problems have I encountered as a writer? ALL THE PROBLEMS! I've written the most awful first drafts, went through with terrible ideas, published works after a first draft, completely stalled on a writing project, ditched another one even though half of it has been published. I write and publish my own fiction, which I get paid a whole five cents an hour for. (I felt the need to mention that because I am so incredibly poor.) So basically, ALL THE PROBLEMS.
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Rivers
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Post by Rivers on Feb 24, 2014 13:33:54 GMT
Hello! I was wondering, what are your methods when it comes to writing? Do you have a ritual that you do before you start writing to get into the mood to write? What are your advice for those who have a hard time translating ideas to words? And how do you choose your words or the manner that you write? What problems have you encountered as a writer? First of all, I'd like to mention that I do write, but I can't write romance to save my life. So I haven't published any of my feeble attempts at Adlock. As for my methods: I do NaNoWriMo, (I'm Franziska von Karma, normally lurking around in the Beyond 50k Forums) and I tend to have an insane goal for it. I want to do 200,000 words for this upcoming camp session, but I'm loosing steam on coming up with ideas of stuff that would get 200k. So I binge-write during November and April, and either do side projects or revise the other ten months of the year. I tend to get a lot of stuff done this way. Ritual: I have to have music playing. If I don't, my head starts wandering off, and music just keeps me focused. If I'm binge-writing like in April or November, I try to write 1,000 words in under twenty minutes, and usually there's people online that I do word wars with. So I rinse and repeat however many times (last November it was 3-4 times a day, this upcoming April, it'll be 6-7 times a day.) I can normally manage to get 1,000 in somewhere around 20 minutes, so this whole plan is good. If I'm writing a second draft or revising, I fix the major problems and ship it off to my three wonderful beta-readers who fix the stuff I missed. Then I re-write the whole thing again. As for getting in the mood to write, I just sit down, and write. . . I kind of warm up, so to say, and then I can crank out up to 8,000 words per day. I learned some great advice for translating ideas into words: If you just can't find the right word, write down in parentheses some ideas that you have, and then keep going. It's a bit like taking a test, if you get stuck on one question, you should move on and come back to it later. How I choose my words? I kind of just think out my story, and I can type so fast that normally my fingers can keep up with what I'm thinking. I guess it's like the words just come to me. What problems have I encountered as a writer? ALL THE PROBLEMS! I've written the most awful first drafts, went through with terrible ideas, published works after a first draft, completely stalled on a writing project, ditched another one even though half of it has been published. I write and publish my own fiction, which I get paid a whole five cents an hour for. (I felt the need to mention that because I am so incredibly poor.) So basically, ALL THE PROBLEMS. 1,000 words under 20 minutes. I...wow. HARDCORE. [kowtows to you]
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aksiznarfnovamrak
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Post by aksiznarfnovamrak on Feb 24, 2014 13:40:16 GMT
First of all, I'd like to mention that I do write, but I can't write romance to save my life. So I haven't published any of my feeble attempts at Adlock. As for my methods: I do NaNoWriMo, (I'm Franziska von Karma, normally lurking around in the Beyond 50k Forums) and I tend to have an insane goal for it. I want to do 200,000 words for this upcoming camp session, but I'm loosing steam on coming up with ideas of stuff that would get 200k. So I binge-write during November and April, and either do side projects or revise the other ten months of the year. I tend to get a lot of stuff done this way. Ritual: I have to have music playing. If I don't, my head starts wandering off, and music just keeps me focused. If I'm binge-writing like in April or November, I try to write 1,000 words in under twenty minutes, and usually there's people online that I do word wars with. So I rinse and repeat however many times (last November it was 3-4 times a day, this upcoming April, it'll be 6-7 times a day.) I can normally manage to get 1,000 in somewhere around 20 minutes, so this whole plan is good. If I'm writing a second draft or revising, I fix the major problems and ship it off to my three wonderful beta-readers who fix the stuff I missed. Then I re-write the whole thing again. As for getting in the mood to write, I just sit down, and write. . . I kind of warm up, so to say, and then I can crank out up to 8,000 words per day. I learned some great advice for translating ideas into words: If you just can't find the right word, write down in parentheses some ideas that you have, and then keep going. It's a bit like taking a test, if you get stuck on one question, you should move on and come back to it later. How I choose my words? I kind of just think out my story, and I can type so fast that normally my fingers can keep up with what I'm thinking. I guess it's like the words just come to me. What problems have I encountered as a writer? ALL THE PROBLEMS! I've written the most awful first drafts, went through with terrible ideas, published works after a first draft, completely stalled on a writing project, ditched another one even though half of it has been published. I write and publish my own fiction, which I get paid a whole five cents an hour for. (I felt the need to mention that because I am so incredibly poor.) So basically, ALL THE PROBLEMS. 1,000 words under 20 minutes. I...wow. HARDCORE. [kowtows to you] I once spit out 1,000 words in 17 and a half minutes. Boy, that was insane. I was typing faster than I could think. I know someone who can do 1,000 words in nine minutes. (That person attempts to write a million words in a month. And does it every year. It's awesome. )
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resaricara
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Post by resaricara on Feb 24, 2014 14:15:14 GMT
Hello! I was wondering, what are your methods when it comes to writing? Do you have a ritual that you do before you start writing to get into the mood to write? What are your advice for those who have a hard time translating ideas to words? And how do you choose your words or the manner that you write? What problems have you encountered as a writer? First of all, I'd like to mention that I do write, but I can't write romance to save my life. So I haven't published any of my feeble attempts at Adlock. As for my methods: I do NaNoWriMo, (I'm Franziska von Karma, normally lurking around in the Beyond 50k Forums) and I tend to have an insane goal for it. I want to do 200,000 words for this upcoming camp session, but I'm loosing steam on coming up with ideas of stuff that would get 200k. So I binge-write during November and April, and either do side projects or revise the other ten months of the year. I tend to get a lot of stuff done this way. Ritual: I have to have music playing. If I don't, my head starts wandering off, and music just keeps me focused. If I'm binge-writing like in April or November, I try to write 1,000 words in under twenty minutes, and usually there's people online that I do word wars with. So I rinse and repeat however many times (last November it was 3-4 times a day, this upcoming April, it'll be 6-7 times a day.) I can normally manage to get 1,000 in somewhere around 20 minutes, so this whole plan is good. If I'm writing a second draft or revising, I fix the major problems and ship it off to my three wonderful beta-readers who fix the stuff I missed. Then I re-write the whole thing again. As for getting in the mood to write, I just sit down, and write. . . I kind of warm up, so to say, and then I can crank out up to 8,000 words per day. I learned some great advice for translating ideas into words: If you just can't find the right word, write down in parentheses some ideas that you have, and then keep going. It's a bit like taking a test, if you get stuck on one question, you should move on and come back to it later. How I choose my words? I kind of just think out my story, and I can type so fast that normally my fingers can keep up with what I'm thinking. I guess it's like the words just come to me. What problems have I encountered as a writer? ALL THE PROBLEMS! I've written the most awful first drafts, went through with terrible ideas, published works after a first draft, completely stalled on a writing project, ditched another one even though half of it has been published. I write and publish my own fiction, which I get paid a whole five cents an hour for. (I felt the need to mention that because I am so incredibly poor.) So basically, ALL THE PROBLEMS. What's NaNoWriMo? And wow 1000 words under 20 minutes oh my god it takes me about an 45 minutes and more. wow wow wow wow wow wow Another question: Do you ever have problems with switching to creative writing? Say, you switch from technical writing to creative writing. I write, too. But creative writing is not really my area (I'm more of a technical/academic writer) and thank you for the advice you have given above!
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Post by aksiznarfnovamrak on Feb 24, 2014 20:11:05 GMT
First of all, I'd like to mention that I do write, but I can't write romance to save my life. So I haven't published any of my feeble attempts at Adlock. As for my methods: I do NaNoWriMo, (I'm Franziska von Karma, normally lurking around in the Beyond 50k Forums) and I tend to have an insane goal for it. I want to do 200,000 words for this upcoming camp session, but I'm loosing steam on coming up with ideas of stuff that would get 200k. So I binge-write during November and April, and either do side projects or revise the other ten months of the year. I tend to get a lot of stuff done this way. Ritual: I have to have music playing. If I don't, my head starts wandering off, and music just keeps me focused. If I'm binge-writing like in April or November, I try to write 1,000 words in under twenty minutes, and usually there's people online that I do word wars with. So I rinse and repeat however many times (last November it was 3-4 times a day, this upcoming April, it'll be 6-7 times a day.) I can normally manage to get 1,000 in somewhere around 20 minutes, so this whole plan is good. If I'm writing a second draft or revising, I fix the major problems and ship it off to my three wonderful beta-readers who fix the stuff I missed. Then I re-write the whole thing again. As for getting in the mood to write, I just sit down, and write. . . I kind of warm up, so to say, and then I can crank out up to 8,000 words per day. I learned some great advice for translating ideas into words: If you just can't find the right word, write down in parentheses some ideas that you have, and then keep going. It's a bit like taking a test, if you get stuck on one question, you should move on and come back to it later. How I choose my words? I kind of just think out my story, and I can type so fast that normally my fingers can keep up with what I'm thinking. I guess it's like the words just come to me. What problems have I encountered as a writer? ALL THE PROBLEMS! I've written the most awful first drafts, went through with terrible ideas, published works after a first draft, completely stalled on a writing project, ditched another one even though half of it has been published. I write and publish my own fiction, which I get paid a whole five cents an hour for. (I felt the need to mention that because that IS a problem.) So basically, ALL THE PROBLEMS. What's NaNoWriMo? And wow 1000 words under 20 minutes oh my god it takes me about an 45 minutes and more. wow wow wow wow wow wow Another question: Do you ever have problems with switching to creative writing? Say, you switch from technical writing to creative writing. I write, too. But creative writing is not really my area (I'm more of a technical/academic writer) and thank you for the advice you have given above! My writing style is actually very similar no matter what kind of writing I do-- technical or creative. It's easy for me to switch them, actually. NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month, where you attempt to write 50,000 words in one month. You can do more than that, as I do each year, but most people do 50k. NaNo is officially in November, but they have Camps throughout the year where you can pick your goal, and it doesn't have to be 50k, but the big event is the one in November. c:
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Post by lyrangalia on Feb 27, 2014 5:47:04 GMT
Hello! I was wondering, what are your methods when it comes to writing? Do you have a ritual that you do before you start writing to get into the mood to write? What are your advice for those who have a hard time translating ideas to words? And how do you choose your words or the manner that you write? What problems have you encountered as a writer? I don't have a method, to be honest. I like to be in my comfy chair. I like to be on my laptop and cozy. Sometimes I like a certain playlist or a certain artist or something playing to set the mood, but most of the time I find myself just struck by something. A little inspiration of some sort. It never ceases to amaze me how a very little something can lead to a long fic or a long story or whatever. For me, it really is just practicing writing, learning to find my inspiration in random places, and just going with it rather than filing it away as "too weird" and "wtf are you thinking lyra". It's terribly useless, I think, for me to explain how I write because it just... comes. I'll turn over words and phrases and things in my head a lot, but the process itself is kind of a creative magic. I will say though, I am the most productive when I've been reading. There's something about reading a good book (or sometimes a bad one) that inspires me to write. Whether it's because I'm in awe of and inspired by a certain author's ability to turn a phrase or to write a character, or because I'm so offended by the poor quality of a book that I am spurred to write because "I can crap better porn than that".
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Post by bookfairyfox on Feb 28, 2014 23:24:06 GMT
I've done NANOWRIMO so that gets out a shitton of writing (though not quality) and then usually my best ideas come when I have absolutely no way of recording them. I used to just write whenever I felt anything in the hopes that something came out of it and now I'm just too damn busy...though I manage adlock drabbles on tumblr because of lack of length.
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