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[ SECRET POST #3310 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3310 ⌋

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[Burn Notice]

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[Devil’s Rejects]

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(Jennifer Lawrence)

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[David Bowie]

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation, Wesley Crusher]

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[Mushishi - Shrine in the sea]

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[William Daniels and Alan Rickman]

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[Doctor Who]

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[Rocky Horror Picture Show]

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[Psych]

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[Star Wars prequels, Twilight saga]

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So my college classes started up again today, and we talked as a group about how we approached writing and journaling. Everyone has different time frames and styles and ways of keeping track of ideas, and it really fascinated me. So now I'm curious how F!S journals/write! What do you journal about? Do you write every day? How do you prepare to write a story/poem/song/fic/journal entry? I'm so curious! :)

I always liked the idea of keeping a diary but I never managed to keep up with it because I always felt like I had nothing to write about. So what I have now is what I call my fiction diary. Each day I write a short piece inspired by something that stands out about that day. Sometimes it ends up turning into something incredibly different from how my day actually went, especially since I love to write fantasy, but when I look back on them I can usually remember what inspired each piece.

With my other projects, novels and such, it's pretty much entirely based on whim. I'm not one for forcing discipline on myself when I can take advantage of enthusiasm instead. I'm good at getting myself excited about my ideas and motivating myself that way.

I'm also constantly writing down the tiniest snippets of ideas that come into my head and trying to fit them into my projects. There are still thousands waiting to be connected to a real story though. I love taking a bunch of disparate things and trying to find a way to tie them together in a coherent and interesting way. It's basically a game I play at this point.

One thing I've noticed that seems different from a lot of other people is that I have a kind of exploratory approach to writing. Anything is possible in a first draft. I need to wander around and make a mess and then clean it up later in revisions. Some people would say that wastes time, but it's fun for me, which keeps me motivated and gets me working faster than I would if I forced some other kind of organization on myself.

That fiction diary idea sounds great O:

Thank you for posting this question. I'd almost forgot to write in my diary today.

I started writing a diary when I was a part of the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony, and I knew it was a cool experience, and knew I wanted to remember all the little things that were happening, and then I just kinda carried on, writing most days, when I remember.

It's not because I think my life is interesting, it's not, it's partly for my future reference and partly because I find it relaxing, i have anxiety and writing down the things I'm worried about helps me let go of them so I can sleep better.

That sounds really cool! That's definitely something you'd want to remember! :)

I don't outline. I write my first draft in a notebook because they're so portable and it means I can spend bus journeys or long waits writing.

I type it up adding details and other stuff as necessary. I read through the finished book and revise. I send that version to my beta chapter by chapter. I do another couple of revisions based on her suggestions.

I write the blurb and synposis and then check over those for spelling and grammar issues. I send a query off to my publisher. After acceptance, I do all my rounds of edits by the deadlines.

That's about it.

I used to keep journals all the time when I was younger. I remember I had notebooks and diaries all over the place. I didn't write about anything major-basically school stuff or talking about shows or celebrities I liked more than anything else :p. But it was just a fun way for me to kill time at school (when I wasn't working on something else) or at home. Plus, I was a pretty quiet and shy kid, and writing was how I felt most comfortable expressing my thoughts and feelings. It still is, actually.

I should get back into keeping journals/diaries again. I feel like there's a lot that's happened to me in recent years that I should write about and get out of my head.

As for other types of writing, I like writing stories, but I don't really have a set way of doing things with them. Basically, if an idea grabs me and I've really got an urge to write it, I'll do so. If I need to prepare at all, sometimes I might jot down notes or a bit of an outline of what I want to touch on in the story, or a general timeline of the events. Otherwise it's pretty much by the seat of my pants :p.

I don't write every day. I should, I've heard that's a good thing for writers to do. I keep meaning to get into that sort of a routine. So we'll see how that goes.

The only time I kept a successful journal was the first year of my Library Tech course. And I journaled fairly regularly on LJ...now, I don't do much of it since LJ is almost dead and tumblr really isn't good for that. I did try to do a handwritten journal last year, on a daily basis, but that petered out, mostly cus I felt like shit and my entries tended to be very negative.

As for writing (I write fanfic)? I have only ever outlined one story and it's multi-part and was the most general of outlines.

I don't write in an entirely linear fashion. I do tend to start at the beginning, but I'll often think of something for later in the story and write that (or part of it), go back and write the connecting scenes, write the ending, etc. Then I'll edit it, send it to my beta, re-edit and post it when I think it's ready.

As for ideas? I will sometimes hand write stuff at work. I don't usually jot ideas down--if they're good enough I'll remember them, if not? I won't. I tend to get some good ideas on the commute to and from work.... I should write everyday (or at least more often) but I don't.

I try to write as often as possible but I'm not very consistent yet. I usually try to write something on whatever story most interests me at the moment, even if it's character dialogue or dossiers, I figure it's groundwork. I've never journaled, though, so I'm interested to know what other people's processes are.

LJ is my diary. I make private posts if anything interesting happens. I tried doing a diary when I was younger but I found I couldn't do long-hand because I lost interest and I wanted to be too detailed. Typing works much better.

For writing, I keep a notebook by my bed and a notepad on me so when an idea strikes, I can write down some key phrases to remind myself about it. Then I write up the idea in a word document. I've got tons of ideas like that. Sometimes I add extensions or additions or variations to the idea as I keep thinking about it.

If I decide I want to write the idea, I usually write it up again but it way more detail. I find that irons out a lot of story kinks. But this is just what happens, not necessarily how the story will go, as it will include back history and character motivation, etc. So then I make an outline of how the story goes. I leave it for awhile and then ruthlessly slash the outline and combine stuff to make it as tight a story as possible (mostly because I'm lazy and don't want to write more than I have to or write something I have to throw away, since that always feels like waste of time). I might do this a few times until I have the time to write.

Then I make a schedule. I almost never keep my schedule (unless there's a deadline) but it's useful to keep me writing. I try not to be too ambitious but to keep momentum going. And then I write it up. I try to find a beta but usually can't find one so I sit on the story for awhile until it's not fresh in my head and then go over it and edit it a few times until I've caught a majority of typos.

I find the hardest part is then figuring out tagging and a summary.

I started keeping a journal because I loved the Dear America books and wanted a diary of my own. I still write in one, but I mainly use it as a venting outlet. I feel much better about a bad or sad situation after I've written it down. If something really good happens, I'll try my best to write it out in perfect detail so I can look back on it later.

When it comes to stories, I just write what pops into my head and worry about cohesiveness later. It's a major pain to figure out how all those random bits fit, but outlining things sucks the fun out of writing things down.

I walk around with a little notebook, generally to write any ideas that pop up, be it for a story, fic, or anything else.

I have a larger journal, I use that to reflect about my life, things that have happened. I like to take time out of my day to do that (haven't done it in a while)> Occasionally, I'll type something up on the comp.

As for original fiction, I write in a notebook, I tend to include drawings in my sketch books. Sometimes, I write the general theme/plot of the story, sometimes, I see entire scenes and write them out.

For fic, it's similar, but usually I'll jot down songs, as particular songs will inspire particular scenes.

For songs, I tend to sing them first, then break ti down and write the lyrics as I go along. If I'm writing with someone, we work on the sound first, at least to get the general melody, and then we focus on lyrics. Generally written on napkins/any paper found.

My goal was to write every day but it ended up being once a week because there's too much going on and I don't always remember to or have time.

I write a lot of stuff whenever I feel like it, and sometimes I even manage to actually get my planned stuff done.

Also for fanfic, I have this thing I do lately where I get pure wish fulfillment out of my head by putting for fun cut-scenes in a special folder on my drive and write them while writing the important parts. Two birds, one stone.

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