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user-inactivated  ·  4123 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Vumit

I enjoyed this tremendously. In fact, you're so good at writing that it hurts. I look at my writing, and it's abysmal in comparison. What kind of process do you have for when you write fiction (that I might apply to my own writing)? That might be similar to one asking "Where do you get your ideas?" to a novelist, but whatever it is that I'm doing, it isn't working for me, and whatever it is that you're doing, it's working for you. You might ask, "But what are you having trouble with? Opening lines, plotting, character development...?" and I'd reply... all of it. I'll write something, and reread it, and it looks, to be frank, so stupid that I'll delete it promptly. It could be that I need to write stories over and over ad vomitum, and then I'll get the hang of it, but I figured that I'd just ask.