100 Things 90 My Strange Writing Process

Yeah, I have to admit it: My process can be annoying as holy hell. Okay not so much the actual writing but my way around writer's block or the way I puzzle out difficult to write passages. General it goes like this. I find someone who is foolish generous enough to talk me through it. They offer suggestions. Sometimes it's exactly what I need. Sometimes it ends up in me going 'no, that can't work and here's why!'

And believe it or not that is very helpful. While I'm busy telling them why it won't work something that WILL work shakes loose in my brain. Take this weekend. I'm busy telling evil_little_dog why her suggestion won't work and OMG I've just written a bunch of stuff that will never work and I don't know what to do (and she's probably thinking STFU) and bam, it occurs to me, hey try this! This will allow you to use what you wrote without spoiling what comes next and hey it might even foreshadow something. Wow, my brain is wonderful. Go brain go.

Of course this process has to annoy the fuck out of anyone without range of it. It annoys ME, but apparently my brain works best with conflict and stress. You give it either of those things and it works. Give it peace and serenity and it finds another excuse to play Bejeweled Blitz. My muse is sort of an asshole sometimes but at the end of the day it gets the work done. And my friends only want to slap me a little a lot.