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growleryso the creative things i do are writing, podficcing and making podfic covers, but my processes for the last two are pretty standard?
for podfic, i pick a story, i record the story, i edit the story, i post the story. if i'm gonna incorporate music or sound effects, i usually realise during editing, and i lump all that in the editing process.
when it comes to cover art, i only make a cover if i have a solid concept for one. from there it's gather the pictures, arrange them in some way, mess with the contrast/colouring/etc, then fight with the text so it looks like something i won't hate. i have a massive library of fonts that i've collected over the years, so this last step has been a lot easier recently.
writing, though. hoo boy. usually, me writing goes a lot like this:
ooh! a concept/more fully-formed idea/scene/snippet of dialogue! let me write this down!
hm. i have to. make more words happen.
hm.
okay, got another scene probably near the middle or end.
hm.
hm.
i'll just reread what i've written. and edit a little.
i added/deleted a word/sentence! progress!
hm.
ad nauseum, until i eventually abandon the project. i'm not very good at planning/outlining, which is to say it makes me panicky because it makes me realise i don't have enough ideas to make a full story. and i can just make it up as i go along, right?
i mean, clearly this has worked out for me. but mostly it... doesn't, and over the years i've saved a whole bunch of advice about how to plot/outline/etc so that i may get better at doing it. there's nothing wrong with making it up as you go along obv, but i am a person of Structure in like, all aspects of my life, so it makes sense that i'd write better this way. and when i have done so, it has usually worked out well (ie i actually managed to finish the damn thing).
the problem then comes that i don't know how to fill the scenes! now it's the individual scenes i don't have enough ideas for! so really it's not outlining/planning/whatever that i'm bad at, it's Ideas. which is something i've been working on actually!
so i listen to this podcast called Death of 1000 Cuts, which is mostly about the host reviewing beginning scenes of people's writing that they send in. but another thing he did last year was couch to 80k, a writing bootcamp. so far i've only managed the first few weeks but they're mostly about idea generation and like, free writes, which i found massively helpful and always mean to do more of but, ha. it's really good though! he's super encouraging and kind and gives good, concrete advice that like, takes into account mental health garbage since he struggles with that himself. he's also a great twitter follow, where he does things like 1 like, 1 system of magic with an interesting cost. he's just a good boy.
for podfic, i pick a story, i record the story, i edit the story, i post the story. if i'm gonna incorporate music or sound effects, i usually realise during editing, and i lump all that in the editing process.
when it comes to cover art, i only make a cover if i have a solid concept for one. from there it's gather the pictures, arrange them in some way, mess with the contrast/colouring/etc, then fight with the text so it looks like something i won't hate. i have a massive library of fonts that i've collected over the years, so this last step has been a lot easier recently.
writing, though. hoo boy. usually, me writing goes a lot like this:
ooh! a concept/more fully-formed idea/scene/snippet of dialogue! let me write this down!
hm. i have to. make more words happen.
hm.
okay, got another scene probably near the middle or end.
hm.
hm.
i'll just reread what i've written. and edit a little.
i added/deleted a word/sentence! progress!
hm.
ad nauseum, until i eventually abandon the project. i'm not very good at planning/outlining, which is to say it makes me panicky because it makes me realise i don't have enough ideas to make a full story. and i can just make it up as i go along, right?
i mean, clearly this has worked out for me. but mostly it... doesn't, and over the years i've saved a whole bunch of advice about how to plot/outline/etc so that i may get better at doing it. there's nothing wrong with making it up as you go along obv, but i am a person of Structure in like, all aspects of my life, so it makes sense that i'd write better this way. and when i have done so, it has usually worked out well (ie i actually managed to finish the damn thing).
the problem then comes that i don't know how to fill the scenes! now it's the individual scenes i don't have enough ideas for! so really it's not outlining/planning/whatever that i'm bad at, it's Ideas. which is something i've been working on actually!
so i listen to this podcast called Death of 1000 Cuts, which is mostly about the host reviewing beginning scenes of people's writing that they send in. but another thing he did last year was couch to 80k, a writing bootcamp. so far i've only managed the first few weeks but they're mostly about idea generation and like, free writes, which i found massively helpful and always mean to do more of but, ha. it's really good though! he's super encouraging and kind and gives good, concrete advice that like, takes into account mental health garbage since he struggles with that himself. he's also a great twitter follow, where he does things like 1 like, 1 system of magic with an interesting cost. he's just a good boy.
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Date: 2019-01-13 09:28 pm (UTC)EXACTLY THIS. I always have a beginning and an end but the middle scenes are just *gestures* I don't even know. I'll have to check out that podcast that you recommended. It looks awesome. :)
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Date: 2019-01-15 08:44 pm (UTC)but yeah i hope you enjoy the podcast if you do! the regular episodes are great too.
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Date: 2019-01-15 05:39 pm (UTC)I've developed a new appreciation for podfic lately. I miss reading. I want to read more. But I haven't been doing a good job of making the time for it. With podfic I can listen to a story and put away the laundry.
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Date: 2019-01-15 08:42 pm (UTC)and i'm glad podfic can do that for you ♥ i do love being able to listen to a story while i'm doing other things, like i'm able to bring fandom with me pretty much anywhere. and a lot of podfic i listen to i maybe wouldn't have read the fic, so i get introduced to more stories than i would read otherwise.