Snowflake Challenge Day 11

[opensummer]

Day 11
In your own space, talk about your creative process(es) — anything from the initial inspiration to how you feel after something’s done. Do you struggle with motivation or is it a smooth process? Do you have any tricks up your sleeve to pull out when a fanwork isn’t cooperating? What is your level of planning to pantsing/winging it? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

So the answer to this for me originally was process, what process? But after a bit of reflection that answer's a bit dated. Prior to getting an adhd diagnosis and getting medicated that was definitely true. Writing was about inspiration more than anything. I would sit down and bang out however many words I could write in one sitting and then tack on an ending, do minor edits, and post.

Since getting medicated my ability to focus on longer term projects has been muuuuuuch better which means I actually to develop a process. Occasionally I'll outline a general idea and plot before starting to write it out but I prefer to play it fast and lose with my writing.

The length of my works has been slowly creeping up and I no longer write everything in just one sitting which requires a different editing process.

Comments

[seleneheart]

If I write longer works, I have to be more careful because I'll repeat myself or have continuity errors or something. I start out with drabbles because it's hard to mess those up!

[opensummer]

Same!