Jan. 12th, 2019

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[community profile] snowflake_challenge Day 11

In your own space, talk about your creative process(es) — anything from the initial inspiration to how you feel after something’s done. Do you struggle with motivation or is it a smooth process? Do you have any tricks up your sleeve to pull out when a fanwork isn’t cooperating? What is your level of planning to pantsing/winging it?


Whoops, I missed this one yesterday. My creative process, if it can be called such a thing, is generally to get inspiration from other people's prompts. I'll scroll through kink memes, fic exchange letters, tumblr ideas, etc. Probably about 80% of anything I've written was based on a prompt. But I tend to need a lot of choices and something with some detail; just a pairing or character doesn't usually give me enough inspiration. I kind of enjoy that while a lot of people have great ideas that they don't necessarily want to write out, I borrow those great ideas to do the fleshing out. I think it's a nice symbiotic relationship :)

Once I have an idea to springboard off, I have a brief moment of inspiration where I write a few hundred words around which I'll later have to write the entire fic. I'll give up on it for months and then I'll get it into my head that 'you will finish this!' and I'll slog through the boring bridging sections that are needed to string everything together, with occasional additional bursts of inspiration.

Often I'm paralyzed by the fact that I have several WIPs going at once and I can't decide which to work on so I work on none of them. But I also hardly ever give up on things. I'll finish things years and years after I started them.
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[community profile] snowflake_challenge Day 12

In your own space, create your own challenge.


My challenge for myself today was to step away from fandom for a bit and get some of my RL together because there's nothing I love more than sitting down to read fic and catch up on my shows but too much of that leads to the madness and squalor I currently exist in.

Anyway, I went grocery shopping so I have some non-expired food, got my car washed, finally unpacked my suitcase after being back from the holidays for over a week, stripped my bed to replace the sheets with my nice warm fleece ones which I should have done in like November but it's still cold so better late than never, did a load of dishes which I will now unload in entire instead of my usual piece by piece as needed leading to terrible dish build up on my counter, washed and folded a load of towels and now am doing one of clothes. And maybe I'll keep going or consider this groundwork for tomorrow because I should really vacuum, sort my mail, do surface cleaning, and a dozen other things.

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