/lit/ - Literature

Open questions:
-1) what length do you write? Poem, flash fiction, short story, novelette, novella, novel, door stopper, epics?
0) what do you write? Memoir, biography, philosophy, research, history, other non-fiction, realism, surrealism, historical fiction, magical realism, fantasy, sci-fi, horror, romance, or other fiction
1) Do you actually use technical stuff (such as act/story structure, sentence variation, foreshadowing, Chekhov's gun, so on) before/while you write? Or after, while editing?
2) How fleshed out is your idea before pen hits paper? Full plot? Characters? Setting? Climax? Tension? Themes? Etc.
3) if you were to divide the time that you are "writing" how much is spent on the following: putting down the words, thinking about big pictures, and editing
4) do you keep a dictionary and a thesaurus on hand (digital or physical) to aid in your word choice?

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