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<blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 2447527" data-attributes="member: 11697"><p>I write like a child with severe ADD acts: in short, random, sporadic bursts.</p><p></p><p>I usually write my weekly update on and off from monday till thursday, never writing more than a page at a time. When I have no more time and friday rolls around I'll actually sit down and write for as long as it takes till I find myself at a decent cliffhanger in the plot. Usually this involves sitting down in the evening and writing, telling myself that 'I'll write a nice 6-8 page update', and then looking up to notice that the clock says 5am, and I've written double that. That happens more often than not.</p><p></p><p>Normally it's an 8-10 page update each week on friday or saturday for SH#1, and about 8 pages every two weeks for SH#2. And then there's the other stories I'm writing to flesh out individual antagonists within the first storyhour (13 individual Baernaloths) which are anywhere from 15 - 30 pages each on average, and I'm doing those literally at random when inspiration strikes me. And inspiration strikes at bizarre times, usually when I'm driving or I'm in my lab working. Perhaps it's creepy to be working in a virology lab while coming up with ideas about evil evil creepy beings who tend to have an association with disease... naaah.</p><p></p><p> <img src="http://arcanofox.foxpaws.net/shemmywink.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>But back to the writing process. I don't write in a linear fashion. Ever. I write random bits of different sections of the story as inspiration for the sections hit. I get an idea I write it and then later go back and tie them together, writing what happened in between those portions.</p><p></p><p>Thankfully I wrote up all my notes in Word, or at least most of them, and I have all of my handwritten notes collected for reference. Plus I have the obsessive compulsive notes that one of my players took, plus random quotes that the other players wrote down from various sessions. I'll draw on those when I'm writing, plus adding interlude material as appropriate to present events that happened behind the scenes and away from the PCs (such as dialogue between various NPCs, action by various Yugoloths outside of those that the PCs opposed them in).</p><p></p><p>Oh yes. Caffeine. I probably go through about 10 shots of espresso in the process of writing. And lots of music in the background, usually some form of industrial.</p><p></p><p>When done I'll read over it myself for spelling etc, how it flows, and then I'll sometimes as one of my players to look over it and give their approval before I post it.</p><p></p><p>I write more when I don't have the time to write because it sticks a fire under my tail so to speak. Back when I was writing the Sigil chapter for Planewalker.com (give us a look when you vote for the Ennies!) I was, for reasons no longer relevant, depressed. I don't know how much I slept that week, its all sort of a blurry haze, but I wrote around 100 pages in the space of three days with all the reference books sprawled around my apartment and cracked open on the kitchen table.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shemeska, post: 2447527, member: 11697"] I write like a child with severe ADD acts: in short, random, sporadic bursts. I usually write my weekly update on and off from monday till thursday, never writing more than a page at a time. When I have no more time and friday rolls around I'll actually sit down and write for as long as it takes till I find myself at a decent cliffhanger in the plot. Usually this involves sitting down in the evening and writing, telling myself that 'I'll write a nice 6-8 page update', and then looking up to notice that the clock says 5am, and I've written double that. That happens more often than not. Normally it's an 8-10 page update each week on friday or saturday for SH#1, and about 8 pages every two weeks for SH#2. And then there's the other stories I'm writing to flesh out individual antagonists within the first storyhour (13 individual Baernaloths) which are anywhere from 15 - 30 pages each on average, and I'm doing those literally at random when inspiration strikes me. And inspiration strikes at bizarre times, usually when I'm driving or I'm in my lab working. Perhaps it's creepy to be working in a virology lab while coming up with ideas about evil evil creepy beings who tend to have an association with disease... naaah. [IMG]http://arcanofox.foxpaws.net/shemmywink.gif[/IMG] But back to the writing process. I don't write in a linear fashion. Ever. I write random bits of different sections of the story as inspiration for the sections hit. I get an idea I write it and then later go back and tie them together, writing what happened in between those portions. Thankfully I wrote up all my notes in Word, or at least most of them, and I have all of my handwritten notes collected for reference. Plus I have the obsessive compulsive notes that one of my players took, plus random quotes that the other players wrote down from various sessions. I'll draw on those when I'm writing, plus adding interlude material as appropriate to present events that happened behind the scenes and away from the PCs (such as dialogue between various NPCs, action by various Yugoloths outside of those that the PCs opposed them in). Oh yes. Caffeine. I probably go through about 10 shots of espresso in the process of writing. And lots of music in the background, usually some form of industrial. When done I'll read over it myself for spelling etc, how it flows, and then I'll sometimes as one of my players to look over it and give their approval before I post it. I write more when I don't have the time to write because it sticks a fire under my tail so to speak. Back when I was writing the Sigil chapter for Planewalker.com (give us a look when you vote for the Ennies!) I was, for reasons no longer relevant, depressed. I don't know how much I slept that week, its all sort of a blurry haze, but I wrote around 100 pages in the space of three days with all the reference books sprawled around my apartment and cracked open on the kitchen table. [/QUOTE]
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