tieleen

The creative process. That's... not inaccurate, even if some of us mostly loop from 'yes, lazy' to 'no, it's pointless'.

Actually, my personal creative process is generally one of these:

1. Sit down, write a thing. Wonder how that happened and how I can make it repeat more than once a year.

2. Plan out crack universe with thirty characters (usually crossovery). Write bitlets. We might name this the greenet method, not necessarily because she does it more, but because utilizing it to create a 1,000,000-word zombie apocalypse of awesome is worth some respect.

3. Plan sprawling AUs with strange premises and complex ideas. Figure it'll take about 40,000 words. Write out 2,000. Spend next decade vaguely planning to go back to it some day.

I should maybe mention here that the story where Harry Potter wakes up in a future where he's the next Voldemort and, worse, in bed with Draco Malfoy, is absolutely still on the back burner. Yes. There it is, burning away.

The exception to the rule here is the many words written in Kael's universes, because somehow it's much easier to write when somebody else supplies the amazingness*. Also, cranky bodyswapped people are funny.


*Kael, if/when you see this: Yes, but that's writer's block. Writer's block doesn't care if it's easy or not. NO I'M NOT BROKEN.