Writing Habits

[Android-18]

I'm a...genius.

[Sol]

I have trouble with describing things, though. Not in the sense that I can't, but in the sense that I can't stop. I keep wanting to slap words where they aren't wanted, and it ends up being way too hard to understand what's actually going on. I've gotten a little better lately (looking at my old stuff made me cringe), but I still tend to wander off into Adjective Land when I get too carried away.

I do that. A lot. It's the one thing I absolutely hate about my writing. If anyone ever saw any of my posts before I submited them they're usually ridiculously long winded(The long windedness that survives into my posted content is only a fraction of the problem). I'll do like 3 lines on the way the sun is shinning, reread it a minute later and realize it's wayyy too boring.

[Belle Hibiki]

... I wish I could write as well planned as Radder does off-the-cuff.

Goddamn it.

[Juno]

I've realized that I can't write while I'm logged on here because you nice folks distract me =]

[Sage]

I always log out to write.

[Juno]

That's a nice idea, but I'm too much of a lurker to do that.

[Kaden]

I just...write.

Pretty much that.

I like to have at least one plot point in my head before I sit down to write, but the rest is just whatever happens to come out. My first post for Kaden had five paragraphs of him leaving his apartment. Definitely not planned.

As for the actual physical conditions to write, I need noise or music or TV, or something. Usually I go with music without lyrics, or music that I've heard over and over and over. Nothing distracting.

Interestingly, I've become very uninterested in writing fight scenes. There's just usually so little of the actual character in them that I feel like there's no point. I'd rather show how a character acts by writing out how they go to get the mail.

[Piper Juunanagou]

I tend to mix up how/when I write.

Most of the time, I enjoy having a skeleton to work with. Something that I doodled on the edge of my notebook during class. It gives me a foundation to work off and a goal to strive towards. I'm always happy when I can achieve a goal. Sometimes, however, I find myself bored at my computer and decide it's time to do something creative/constructive. I don't think my planned writing is much different from my sporadic writing, however, but I suppose I'm not the best judge on the question.

Environment-wise, I enjoy being alone when I write. People in the room and on AIM tend to fragment my train of thought. Internet, however, I tend to use frequently, if just to not make the writing seem so endless. It helps me to take a break every few paragraphs to just gander at something or research something I'm writing about. Sometimes I enjoy music, but most of the time I find it horribly distracting to my brain.

[Juno]

I've become more interested in making my writing true to the more minute facts.

Like, for this post I'm working on right now, I researched fortune telling. And the name of those freaky Arabian hats like Aladdin and Abu wear.

[Misa Fujiroka]

I've become more interested in making my writing true to the more minute facts.

Like, for this post I'm working on right now, I researched fortune telling. And the name of those freaky Arabian hats like Aladdin and Abu wear.

A fez?

[Juno]

A fez?

Yeah, I know that now. =D

[Sol]

[Sage]

Thread's over. Angelo won.

[Szar]

I just open up the Word document and let my fingers move. Usually I don't like what they produce, so I edit and re-edit and revise and re-revise and continue until it's a skeletal mess of what I started with. Then I post.

[Alura]

I sit back for a few minutes and plan out what I want in my head, and I write it.

I usually don't plan more then that one roleplay, though. Very rarely do I plan ahead

[Kaden]

Very rarely do I plan ahead

That's what I did with Rad. I'm actually very excited to have the chance to do things differently with Kaden. I gotta say, I'm really liking the way the character is shaping up.

It makes me feel very... reassured. I've been a little unsure about letting Rad go.

[Juno]

I've decided to write about crazy, stupid stuff.

I mean, I just freakin' wrote a post about a mouse driving a tank into a big top.

[Jonathan Meer]

Sounds like we've got a new Krillin.

[Juno]

Haha. Not comedic stupid stuff. Just crap where you read it and you're like... why the eff did that just happen?

[Jonathan Meer]

There was that too.