tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274987097756433491.post7177665103425047873..comments2024-03-05T11:26:21.204-06:00Comments on All the World's Our Page: Practical magicUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274987097756433491.post-75259366890565661682011-08-01T23:44:43.436-05:002011-08-01T23:44:43.436-05:00Actually, I do not have my magic wand. I found by ...Actually, I do not have my magic wand. I found by getting into the habit of writing a bit every day it eventually gets to "The End." I usually find that once I start as you say hours pass, breakfast turns into lunch and way past dinner. You got to love when that happens.<br /><br />The main key is having an idea of the story you want to write, define you characters well, and then let your fingers do the walking. That amount of writing you actually keep during the editing and rewriting stage is irrevalent at this point. Polishing goes out the window (that's handled later in the editing or the next day.) Just keep writing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274987097756433491.post-29538901838033437942011-08-01T13:14:12.200-05:002011-08-01T13:14:12.200-05:00Where does the magic come from? Sometimes there...Where does the magic come from? Sometimes there's a spark, an out-of-the-blue epiphany that comes to me during the day. Sometimes there's an urge to write - like an itch that needs scratching. But most often the magic happens simply as I write. Time spent with my characters, even if I'm stuck on the runway, eventually turns productive. <br /><br />I think there's a danger in waiting for the magic to appear. It may not, and then what? For me, the magic happens when I push on and keep at it and suddenly the nuts and bolts have fallen away and I'm soaring with the magic again.Susan Montgomeryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03194055286314636481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2274987097756433491.post-23787476154285780922011-08-01T12:08:18.249-05:002011-08-01T12:08:18.249-05:00Hey Claire,
Interesting comparison to spellcastin...Hey Claire,<br /><br />Interesting comparison to spellcasting in HP - I hadn't quite thought of it that way before!<br /><br />Um, well, I think I'm still figuring out my process. But so far as I can tell, this may be another case of us being birds of a feather [g]. <br /><br />I don't start a story without a spark; if I don't have passion for it, why bother? (I might write a few words, or a page or two, but if I'm not feeling it, it shows up _really fast_.) I remember the hours and the love I had to put in to my work 'before' (even if most of it was fanfiction), and the ways in which it *didn't* work if I wasn't completely invested. So no spark, no go.<br /><br />But there's something unique, to me, about the process for this WIP. The things I wrote with these earliest sparks were only sparks themselves; I thought I'd brought the WIP to life and started a nice little fire but nope, I was completely wrong, and it was only the beginning.<br /><br />I'm a little bit intimidated with something that takes on this much of a life of its own, to be honest. But I like it, too. [g] It's nice knowing that the story is limited only by my inability to stay butt-in-chair-fingers-on-keyboard.Jill W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13154417703559169377noreply@blogger.com