Fandom Snowflake Challenge 2015 Day 3: Creative Process

[dreamwriters]

Day 3

In your own space, talk about your creative process - from what inspires you to what motivates you to how you manage to break through blocks. Does your process change depending on the type of creating you're doing? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Fanfic
Varies. Music is a big inspiration, as is art. I also get inspiration from quotes, other books and movies. Sometimes I get ideas talking to other people in fandom. Sometimes another fandom does something that I want more of, so I write something using the trope/scenario in another fandom.

Common House Tales are actually things that happen in my system's innerworld so they're sort of fanfic personal narratives.

For me I write a lot of versions of fanfic and then I pick them apart later and quilt them together until I like them.

Most often my process is just little snippets of scenes that i quilt square together. Some fics do require more outlining, but that's not my typical preference.

If I get really frustrated with a block, sometimes I just post anyway and usually add a "might be edited later" tag (usually my personal standards are apparently higher than fandom's)... I mean I wrote Foreshadowed based off a really weak Welcome to Night Vale bunny post-episode 55 and I still hate it but at least some of the fandom BNFs disagree because I have kudos from some of them.

The other thing that helps a lot with blocks is sprinting. I'm a co-mod for All Year Sprints, a year-round writing sprints chatroom. Also if you're interested, I'm actually planning on running a Wednesday workshop on the 21st from 7-10pm EST called "Dusting Off The Quill" (it's going to be a mix of round-table discussions about making a writing habit and sprints using art for inspiration). :D

Fanmixing
I usually read the fic thoroughly. Sometimes talk to the author, especially if they also write meta about their universes. I sometimes ask the author if they have particular tastes in music, but grnerally I tend to use my own tastes which is pretty eclectic and go with the mood of the story.

Cosplay
For me, if I'm fascinated by/love a character, I'll probably try cosplaying them. I've been cosplaying since 3rd grade when my class did a Maniac Magee Book Breakfast (I was Maniac Magee -- unfortunately I don't have pictures of that cosplay or the ones I did after that of my interpretation of Cornflower from Redwall or my interpretation of Moaning Myrtle). Generally I do cosplay with found/bought stuff because I can't sew yet.