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9/29/2019 1:26:36 PM
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A question regarding Fanfic/RP/Story writers on Offtopic
If you have been in #Lore for some time, you probably recognize my name from some fanfics (“Unofficial Grimoire” as I like to call it) I wrote there.
I haven’t written some in a while, and it would be a good idea for me to write a origin story for Giant, just so everyone has a good idea of the way he thinks and acts.
My question is: What is your writing process? How do you write your stories, and are there any pointers you can give me?
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At the risk of sounding both ignorant and arrogant, I don’t much have one. I sit down, lay out a basic plan for what’s going to happen, and start writing. As I go on, my story structures itself and this almost never leads to problems. I will occasionally read over it a second time to check for grammatical errors or oddly formed sentences, and then it’s done. Not sure how or why, but this writing process is actually favorable in my opinion to a more rigid structure. In fact, I’ve written stories before where this method heavily favored the writing style and were crucial to the feel of the story.
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Here is what I do. I build characters. I think very long and hard about stuff they should learn. When I figure out where they are going to grow. I build a world and a plot to facilitate their growth.
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My approach is usually this. How can I make a story that is both hysterical, has callbacks, references, and kickass all at the same time? To do that I often sample some sources. One such source I got for murder mystery all that while ago was me watching a trailer for the Night on the Orient Express (I believe it was called), a Murder Mystery on a train. The key is understanding and appealing to your audience. In this case, my audience was a bunch of nerds on a gaming sub forum. I was pretty much at home doing that lol
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Best approach is to just write, regardless of where you start: Got a piece of dialogue? Put that down, develop those two characters, work from there. Got a scene? Write it down, think about world building, character, setting, work from there. Even if all you have is a slogan, put it down, see where it leads. You'll find that writing the first couple of words is the hardest part. As soon as you've got a word, you've got a sentence... then a paragraph... then before long a story. Also be aware that your first draft will not be good. And that's okay. The best stories ever written started out bad. But with each draft, both the story, and you as a writer, improve. Make sure you're reading other books, watching movies and television, playing games, listening to music, and PAYING ATTENTION to everything they do well... and everything they do wrong. Bear those things in mind for your own art.
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I don’t write much but...my tales usually begin with a feeling or some sentence that crosses my mind, and I just run with it seeing where it takes me.
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I don’t write here on Offtopic, and 99% of the time I don’t write fanfic (though I do have something for Pokémon!), but I can still give some pointers. My writing process is pretty simple. I come up with a general plot, some world building, and a few super important scenes, and then work from there. An idea usually pinballs around in my head for a few weeks before I ever start writing anything down—and once I [i]do[/i] reach that point I use my previous plot blueprint as a guideline rather than a definitive “this is how everything has to be”. I’m very much a “worldbuilding first, and put the story inside the world” though. Another perfectly valid approach is to build the story first, then build the world around that.
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Well when ever I write a "fanfic" it's often very rare and usually involves the narrator referencing the player For example I wrote a little speech of Oryx trapped in the touch of malic telling you how to kill savathûn and that together you'll both put an end to her Another time I wrote about how the Iron Lord's would act to you I they were still alive My least popular was a Saint 14 letter to the Guardian kinda showing his doubts But then again, that's just my writing style. I like to imagine that the Guardian is the most important story in Destiny and I just build around that
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I can’t write story’s yet because I am trying to find a technique but I would recommend looking at other people’s RPs/Story’s and seeing what they do and try to pick out the best parts from each person’s RP/Story.
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Since this is really just a hobby for me and not a profession, I don’t stress about it. I write what I enjoy when I enjoy it. [spoiler]The Veggie has spooketh[/spoiler]
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2 RespuestasBack when I was writing in #Community (before its removal), I had to do hand writing as part of some motor and vision therapy, I would sit down put my head set in and listen to Pandora, I would find a song that would stick in my head and get my thinking juices going and then star writing whatever the one or two page little snippet of a story or poem. Other then that I had 30~minute breaks at work and would spend the whole time typing up my story.
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I have two processes: The first involves staring at the screen for hours obsessing over every little detail, deleting paragraphs and rewriting them, a lot of pacing and tea, and usually just saying "screw it" and posting it unsatisfied. The other involves having trouble sleeping and deciding to spew words out at 3AM without any editing. I recommend that one. Just going with it and not thinking too much, not the staying up all night part.
