does anyone else suddenly get hit with flashes of dialogue or scenery or characterization that would be perfect to use if you actually had a plot you could incorporate it into
Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.
Jane Smiley (via maxkirin)
Fun in Co-writing
Author 1: nonono
Author 1: dont erase that explosion
Author 2: no?
Author 1: i fixed the continuity in paragraph 3
Author 1: put the explosion back
You know you’ve been drawing digitally too long when you’re using pencil and paper and mentally hit the ‘undo’ button.
Bonus points if you’re confused for a split second when it doesn’t work.
Also applies to writing with pen and paper.
You know why I love AUs? Because the whole point of them is that everything is changed, and yet these two people are still going to meet and fall in love- that they’re so set in stone and so meant to be that you can change literally everything in a hundred universes and they’ll fall in love over and over again.
AU Exchangelock Pinch Hit Master Post
AU Exchangelock Pinch Hit Master Post
At the end of the AU Exchangelock there were still missing gifts. Some of us pitched in to get everyone something. While some stories are definitely still WIPs, here’s the master list. If you still haven’t gotten something. Please. Hit my inbox up with your request. You slipped through the cracks…
I’m really really proud of us. And we pretty much knocked these out in what, a week? Maybe less?I looked at my e-mail. I got the list in the afternoon on the 6th and posted the last one at like one AM on the 18th… So technically it was twelve days. But considering I did two cons (gone from home six days total between them) I think we did pretty damn well. But yeah, the rest of you guys pretty much knocked them out in a week.
You guys gotta understand, this was mostly due to demonicsymphony’s effort. They’re the one that got the list, made sure it was accessible to all of us writing so we could choose which ones to fill and then put together this list of all the fics we did. She deserves the majority of kudos. But I’m very very proud of all of us in the shjwwriterscircle that knocked these out.
Me: I should be writing
Me: *opens word document*
Me: *stares at progress thus far*
Me: Well what the hell would the characters do now?
Me: Hell if I know
Me: *flicks back to Tumblr*
I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.
Shannon Hale (via maxkirin)
Here’s a top five for you that will hopefully get those thought juices flowing. Top 5 reasons why you write (in whatever category: fic or otherwise)
- I write because I simply love it. I’ve created stories since I was very small and though I’ve taken breaks here and there, i never truly ceased.
- Along those lines, my brain is almost always bubbling over with ideas. A bit of song, art, or just random lines and I’m away to the races.
- In a way, I have to. See above. To me there’s nothing like the feeling when you get a real flow going, or something happens in a fic i’m writing and I’m like, “oh so that’s why…”, or to reread a particularly good sentence or bit and to know that *I* created it.
- I love seeing people react to my work. Of course this is primarily in regards to fanfic. I’m downright prolific, and in a lot of ways it’s because of the love and support I’ve recieved from my fanfic community. With fanfic I’m writing to a live audience. And they respond.
- I don’t think writing is a skill anyone can ever fully master. Every word I write I’m improving. Incrementally, sometimes, but already I can look back on my earlier fanfics and go “this is good, but I’m so much better now.” And I’ll be better a year from now, and ten years from now.