Xylo · 1mo
Hello, sorry to bother you with another question but I just can't stop reading your work and wanting to know how someone can become so talented in writing. I'm SO charmed by every single story you write and I can't help but want to pick your brain for tips.
What do you do to get into the creative process/headspace for writing? For example, do you say "I want to do some writing" then go to a certain space, listen a type of music, etc. that you use to send your brain to access that flowstate? Or are the stories written in short bursts as the ideas come along? What does that
This question comes from the fact that I'm so astonished by how fast you can write stories that are so high quality, and that feel like totally different creative pieces while still capturing the charm of the original source material. Sometimes I can manage to get into a flowstate by accident; but I don't feel like I've really mastered the ability to jump into it purposefully enough to be able to write at such a high volume as you can. Any advice?
No need to apologise! I enjoy questions/messages and I'm so grateful that there are people who read and enjoy the stuff I write as much as you do!
That's a difficult question and to be honest, I think it depends on the day. I change mediums and approaches every now and then. For a while, I did write with music. I'd just put on a random playlist of songs I like and go for it. Sometimes I can't do that. More recently, I've been needing quiet to get the words out. Sometimes I change how I'm writing. For a couple weeks recently, I was doing all my writing on pen and paper because nothing would flow on computer. So I basically just follow what gets the words flowing.
There are a lot of people who tell me I write quickly. I agree in some ways, not in others. Any chaptered fic is written in full before I start posting, so it gives the illusion that I'm working quickly, but I'm not. It's already done. But I do still write at a decent pace. I've always thought that this is because I don't think too deeply most of the time, I just let it flow. And I don't spend a lot of time editing, either. What gets posted is generally what's left after one read through of the draft. It could be so much more polished, but it would take more time than I care to invest when I have so many more stories I want to tell.
Stories aren't always written as they come along, but sometimes an idea bites and I have to drop everything to work on it. I find myself being the most productive when I do writing sprints and pomodoros, particularly with other writer friends. I don't know how helpful that is. A lot of my writing is pretty fluid, and 'no thoughts, just go'.
