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rthstewart) wrote2019-01-11 07:13 pm
rthstewart) wrote2019-01-11 07:13 pm
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Snowflake Challenge Days 9, 10 and 11
Woops, so I fell behind. More on why in the next post but he's yellow, is a heavy breather, and weighs 90 pounds/41 kg. Also, I had some problems with this one, actually.
Day 9
Commit an Act of Kindness.
I'm not super comfortable with this. I've tried to be a good friend to some people. I've tried to write things that might cheer them up (with more to come). I've baked for my spousal unit and the office "Cookie Friday" and for spawn and spawn's voracious friends. As will reported in the next post, we adopted out a big 5 year old Labrador and gave him a new forever home. None of this is truly altruistic because I get something out of all of it. Maybe sponsoring the Three Sentence Ficathon exept I get a lot out of that too.
Day 10
Create a fanwork.
So there are things in the works and I'll try to get more 3SFs done and I posted a couple of Star Wars Legends things (Mara, it's always Mara). But something that was supposed to happen yesterday but did happen today and will be posted on Monday is that I read an excerpt of King Under the Mountain for the SyFy Fandom Files podcast!! The host, Jordan, said it should go up on Monday morning! So, I'm pretty excited about that!
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?
Eh. Two things, though I'm always happy to talk process if anyone is interested. First, hubris. What has been my major impetus every time to launch headlong into fanfic is the "wow, I can do better than that" and "Really? No way. That's not how it's supposed to happen at all." And off I go, pedal to the metal.
Second, once I'm wallowing in a creative behemoth, I am hugely, enormously influenced by reader comments and feedback. The question from a reader, "well what about that character?" Or "tell me more about what this character is doing" or "how did that happen?" has, truly, launched hundreds of thousands of words of additional fic.
In sum, I am a highly reactive writer.
Day 9
Commit an Act of Kindness.
I'm not super comfortable with this. I've tried to be a good friend to some people. I've tried to write things that might cheer them up (with more to come). I've baked for my spousal unit and the office "Cookie Friday" and for spawn and spawn's voracious friends. As will reported in the next post, we adopted out a big 5 year old Labrador and gave him a new forever home. None of this is truly altruistic because I get something out of all of it. Maybe sponsoring the Three Sentence Ficathon exept I get a lot out of that too.
Day 10
Create a fanwork.
So there are things in the works and I'll try to get more 3SFs done and I posted a couple of Star Wars Legends things (Mara, it's always Mara). But something that was supposed to happen yesterday but did happen today and will be posted on Monday is that I read an excerpt of King Under the Mountain for the SyFy Fandom Files podcast!! The host, Jordan, said it should go up on Monday morning! So, I'm pretty excited about that!
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?
Eh. Two things, though I'm always happy to talk process if anyone is interested. First, hubris. What has been my major impetus every time to launch headlong into fanfic is the "wow, I can do better than that" and "Really? No way. That's not how it's supposed to happen at all." And off I go, pedal to the metal.
Second, once I'm wallowing in a creative behemoth, I am hugely, enormously influenced by reader comments and feedback. The question from a reader, "well what about that character?" Or "tell me more about what this character is doing" or "how did that happen?" has, truly, launched hundreds of thousands of words of additional fic.
In sum, I am a highly reactive writer.
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...knowing that you're a reactive writer suddenly makes it feel very... like there's a responsibility involved in asking you questions. Not sure if that's a bad/good/neutral thing.
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Just a misunderstanding :) "Responsibility" was the wrong word but I was struggling to articulate myself better. I suppose I meant... something like, if you tend to get dragged away by the galloping horses of new ideas, throwing heaps of them at you might be unkind given how many things most of us are trying to write at any given time. But that didn't make it clear that of course you're perfectly able to decide what you're going to spend your time on.
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Hubris definitely leads me to write a lot of my fics too. Some people have great ideas but the execution is just... well, not how I want it to be and I feel I can do better! lol Probably not my best character trait, but I really like things my way, and I really do tend to think my way is the right way... and because of that, I wouldn't say I'm as influenced by reviews, in the sense that I won't change a story because of what people say, but it has happened that I write spin offs and sequels and such because people have asked 'What about this?' or 'Can we have more?'
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