#trying to get back in the flow of drawing proper figures and thinking about. legit anatomy and framing again

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What is your writing process like? Do you make outlines? How often do you self-edit? Run us through some of the things you do to help make writing easier.

Oh no. You ask me something that will foil me for the true foe that I am!

Especially when… *coughs* I don’t have a writing process. *cough*

I kid you not, I don’t have a writing process, I don’t make outlines. I don’t even edit or do anything that a writer should do. Which is probably why you see so many typos or grammatical errors in my writing, because Word decided to be all ‘No. Waist and waste are the same thing, right?’

Like, I’m a really simplistic person when it comes to my writing. I think of something, I sit and write it, and boom. I’m finish until X-amount of time where I don’t look at the writing again before I go back and go ‘Wow, this really suuuucks.’

And that’s how I write- *shot*

I kid, I kid. Well, at least a little. It is true though that I don’t necessarily have a writing process, but I do have a few things that I usually do as I go about writing. c: For instance…

— I generate ideas VIA dialogue, mentally and sometimes verbally. Legit, I will literally sit there and talk to myself just so I can piece together the proper dialogue from the scene I want to write for about. Particularly with the ‘This Is’ series posts, I often sit there with a phrase in mind and then generate the dialogue by reciting it to myself.‘What’s that face for?’‘For the h8ters.’And then I mutter myself, redo the dialogue, until I find something perfect to me.I do this alot too with my stories and writings! I’ll generate bits and pieces of the dialogue first before ultimately writing out a scenario based from the dialogue. It’s why I really enjoy the writing prompts you send me. You know, the ones with the one liners and stuff? Those are the most fun to work with because then I can react to the dialogue with more dialogue, actions, feelings, etc. It’s a delight for me!

And almost like RPing. *nudge nudge*

— I’m a word vomit specialist with no direction. For me as I write, I like trying to get the most natural reactions to things, especially when working with a character I’m familiar/comfortable with (OC, character I scream about alot, etc.). So for me, some of the first things that I can imagine the character doing in a scenario is among one of the first things I usually write.

Ravus walks into a bar.He gets pissed and crushes the bar in his hand.Ardyn teases him.Ardyn gets hit with the bar.

Simple flow of thought type writing, but it’s how I do to make the writings seem a bit more natural to me! It unfortunately means why I never really get to know how my writings end. It probably explains why some of you guys read my writings and go ‘WHERE’S THE REST? WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?’ Steph.exe had stopped running. Please open a new application.

— I rarely write for longer than a day. This is perhaps the one big reason why you don’t see me write more. For me, I have a hard time drafting things or saving them to resume them at another time. It really bothers me because, like, I know for a fact that I won’t get it done if I don’t do it in one sitting. At least, I usually don’t. It ends up being pushed aside for so long that when I go back to it, I’m there again talking to myself to figure it all out. Whatever ideas I had the day before are usually abandoned (because I’m a loser who doesn’t write it down).

So for me, it’s almost mandatory to get a chapter or a story done within a day. It goes with my drawings/paintings, my graphics, my video projects, and my other works too. Terrible of me, but alas! D:

— I make outlines exclusively for longer story projects. It kinda sounds contradicting when I say that I don’t have a writing process. But for me, the story outline is done for longer stories that often have more than one chapter to them (what stories??). I use them to record down mostly what I want to happen in sequence of events before I get to the main finale, not so much of the tiny details in between. If things change in the outline, then oh well. But the outlines totally help when I write longer extensive projects. Despite, ya know, not doing very many of them. Outlines are fun though regardless!

— I don’t edit my stories. Yeah, you can probably tell by the sheer amount of typos you can find in one story. For me, I’m often too impatient to go through and edit the final product of it all to search for typos or grammatical things. Mostly because I’m just too eager to post stuff for you all. So whatever you guys usually read is often the rawest form of my writing – unedited and unplanned about 90% of the times.

Like I should go back and edit my own work, but it also falls under the whole ‘I have to get it done in a day!’ mentality. So going back and editing things only just means that it’s less time out of me word vomiting. Or by the time I finish writing, my face is tired, so I just submit my writings half asleep or in a rushed panic before I’m late. oUo;;

I should probably find someone to be my editor or something… Huh…

BUT YEAH.

Kind of abstract, but there’s a little insight into how I go about my writing process. Well, that little of process there is. It often hinders me in terms of the quantity of writings that I do for you all, and perhaps the quality is subpar due to the lack of editing and planning that I go through. But for me, the best part about writing is the spur of the moment natural sensation of it all. c: The dialogue is more natural, and the events that I picture happening in my writings are the ones that usually first come to mind. I think that’s probably my favorite method of my writings and stuff.