/lit/ - Literature

>>11767927
Cultivated obsession.

I get focused in one thing at a time, and I roll with it. I spend a month taking down notes for the story and feeding it with related subjects, films and literature and shit, both fiction and non-fiction. Once that month has passed, I've got a lot of bottled-up writing desire as well as a pretty good idea on the shape of the story, and I can just jump in and write that shit.

>>11740372
Bash it out now, tart it up later.

>>11734316
I just let ideas run through my head, and when one won't go away I will write it.

>>11706524
My secret ingredient is pure unadulterated cultivated obsession.

I get an idea that I can't get rid of. My brain keeps returning to it no matter what I do, developing it in my head and fleshing it out into a coherent narrative. I just can't stop thinking about it.

So what do I do? I roll with it! I let it take me away onto a wild adventure!

I open up a notepad file and start writing down all those ideas, arranging them and organizing them somewhere outside my mind. I find music, films, video games, literature, and other stuff related to the idea, so that I could mine more thoughts and inspiration out of them. I try not to think about anything else except what I'm about to write. I let it consume my every waking hour. And yet however much I'd love to actually start writing, I won't - I will blueball myself, let the pressure mount.

After a month or so, I've got a lot of unreleased pressure and steam just waiting to let itself out, a craving to write out to my heart's content and empty my mind onto paper, AND coherent enough narrative structure to know exactly what to write. Now I finally let myself loose. It's enough to keep me going for a couple months, like three thousand words every single day. By the time I start petering out, I've got a near-complete draft in my hands.

Then I'll take a break, another month or so, let my mind heal and empty out the last spurts of steam related to this thing, pick up other stuff I might get interested in... then return to the draft and start working on it with a fresh mind. Another couple months and it'll start to resemble a finished product.

That's my creative process.