TNT2: the process

[azuire]

Hello everyone! Hope you're all getting a plethora of ideas for the Week 1 Topic! Meanwhile, it's Tuesday, and here's another TNT column! Remember, if you have an idea for a discussion, feel free to PM it to us!

Allons-y!

My favourite parts of the writing process are:
a) characterisation. I enjoy giving each character the breath of life, so to speak. Learning strange things about them: how they react under pressure, what their favourite colour is, and if they're prone to putting ketchup on bananas. One of the first questions I ask a character is, 'If you're in a dark alley and someone attacks you, what do you do?'
b) endings. I love that satisfying feeling of finishing a work: I have so many half-baked ones lying around. Especially if it's a long work, that I forgot about and came back to.

So, what are your favourite parts of the writing process? And what are your least favourites, if any?

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Comments

[selkath]

Writing out the thick of the story, and descriptions, I think. I have a tough time with characterization, and I very rarely actually get to any kind of ending: therefore, those are rather hard for me to like!

[pipisafoat]

Endings are typically super-hard for me. I always feel like I'm cutting off in the middle of the scene, but when I try to extend it, it just keeps going and going and going and sort of tapers off into nothingness after a while. I wish I could get that worked out.

[selkath]

Oh, yes. When I write my shorter snippets of writing -- even if I write chapters -- I can never seem to cut off in a way that seems right. There's definitely that too-abrupt or too-winding aspect.

[azuire]

Description is tough for me. I pick my words very carefully and precisely, and I don't like extra hang-ons. I think I'm more of a narrative style writer.

[selkath]

I wish I could figure that out. I always have trouble pushing the plot itself along, and get hung up on lengthy descriptions, because I want to be certain that the reader sees exactly what I have in my mind (even if that's not always possible.)