The creative process..., What you usually do. Options

[valkan]

Everyone goes about doing it a different way. Usually if I wanna write a new fanfic chapter, I'll play a game or watch an anime over and over again.



.....That was when I CREATED my stories. To get new chapters out of that.....I tend to read alot of books and other fanfics until I become inspired to create something of my own.



How do you do it?

[Feral Phoenix]

I don't really have any specific process; I get ideas at night when I'm waiting to fall asleep, then I stew over them and get some details planned out, though sometimes I don't know what's going to happen at certain points in a story when I begin it.

For example, I had no idea what the end of Kokoro no Hanashi was going to be when I started writing it... and even now, I have almost NO idea what Saigo no Hanashi is going to be like.

Lucky I'm writing KnH so slowly or I'd be in real trouble.

When I'm not in the mood to write, I can't write unless I make myself, and then, the descriptions seem really forced. Some things, like lemons and fight scenes, have to be written all at once or they turn out weird-sounding. Sometimes, I'll leave a story lying around for months before I pick it up again. And then I'll be all like "INSPIRATION!" and rush back to it. XD

I'll get inspired by things that seem to have the same mood of the story or ideas I'd like to include. And a lot of my fics, like my recent addition "Come Down", don't come from be but from something beyond me... that one came to me almost as it's written in a DREAM. A very very lucid dream.

When I write, I like to have music on in the background... I tend to put stuff that holds the mood on repeat and listen to the same song(s) OVER AND OVER AND OVER. I stop really "listening" after a while and just "hear", which is when it becomes inspiring.

And usually I've got something else lined up once I'm done with a fic.

Like the Ein/Malice one, "The Tainted", I'm going to start once "Jugement de Ciel" is finished. XD

Wow... that was really long...