Day 18: 100 Days Challenge

May 7, 2015
Question 18. What’s your writing process?

I write what comes out. That’s it. I don’t plan things, and even when I’ve tried to plan or outline, it doesn’t turn out the way I think it’s going to. The characters surprise me as I’m writing, and it boggles my mind that there are writers who can plan things out meticulously.

I listen to music when I write, but don’t have anything particular that I play. I prefer to write on my desktop computer or my laptop, but I did handwrite stories when I was a kid.

I write more easily when I’m depressed, but I never stop writing. I started a medication for depression when I was about 14 that took away my ability to write. Until then I was planning on being making a career out of writing, so that was life-changing and threw me into an even deeper depression for a while. But then a few years later I got off the medication and was able to write again. By then, my career was off in another direction, so now I just enjoy writing fanfic.

I tend to write from beginning to end, though worlds explode in my head and I feel as if I can’t get it into the document fast enough. Sometimes I’ll skip around and write chunks of fics that end up coming together, but that’s a little harder for me and doesn’t happen that often.

Because of what I did for a living, I can type extremely fast. Which means if my brain is up for throwing ideas out at me, I can write a fic REALLY fast, which I’ll write more about in a few days.

I get stuck sometimes, but I try not to force things and just let it happen, then start writing again when I can.

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