Daydream 'til the end of time
I daydream, a lot; and when I say a lot, I mean so much so that I could be doing the most complex of tasks and still find the brain power to go on 'autopilot' and daydream. It's usually until I speak to a person, or actually begin writing that I'm finally snapped back to reality.
It's this ostentatious amount of daydreaming (and a little bit of real dreaming...) that I initially come up with ideas for "Pwer Shift!". After I have the basic idea for a chapter or scene I replay the scenario over and over and over and et cetera, changing it ever so slightly each time until I have want I want.
This is probably the most time consuming part of the entire process, as I can daydream about a certain scenario for many months before I actually write it down.
Never enough Notebooks
This is where the long and strenuous writing process begins. I take out one of my many notebooks dedicated to "Pwer Shift!" and being writing the rough outline for the chapter until its finished, which usually doesn't take too long, just blotting down random ideas/ transitions here and there until I have a rough, messy skeleton of a chapter. After that, I go into another notebook (2 actually, on of them is already filled, but I'm currently not far along writing the story to go into the second notebook) and write down the outline for the chapter, being sure to include all the major events that are set to happen within the chapter. It's more detailed than the random page or two of ideas that are within the first notebook, so I have to come up with more stuff to fill the gaps, which, once again, shouldn't take that much time to do. All too frequently, however, this is one of the stages where I can get stuck for weeks at a time, unsure of how to continue. At this point I usually set it aside for a while and pick it up later. If I still find myself stuck after picking it up again, I give it to one of my friends to read. During the time that they're reading it, I strangely can come up with ideas as to how to continue. Not only that, but I get an outside perspective, and change anything if necessary. Once I've finished the chapter outline, I go back to the first notebooks that has all the ideas in it and write a slightly more detailed form of an outline, but more organised into a story format, minus a lot of detail.
Finally, once all that is finished, I open up Youtube, search "epic music" and randomly click one of the first results, open a third notebook, slip on my headphones, and get to writing the chapter in full. I can usually do about 1-2 pages a day if it's a good day, but alas, this is another point where I can get stuck for weeks... This is the part where a lot of detail that was missing before gets added in; though I have to admit, I do just pull a bunch of stuff out of nowhere during this phase. Usually within about a month (because I write as slow as fuck) the chapter is finished. Once that is finished, I usually type it up in Microsoft Word, doing minor edits to the chapter as I type it, and copy+paste it into the empty spaces in my script, making adjustments if needed before updating the file on Mediafire.
Editing :(
So, in truth, I've been kind of (VERY) lazy on editing, with the first chapter being the only chapter with major edits and revisions(5-6) applied to it, with the rest being what I believe to be a sub-par level of writing. How do I edit my chapters? I simply sit there with a printed version of my story holding a red pen and staring blankly at the paper, occasionally adding details or revising parts, but mostly blank staring and daydreaming. I've found the process so cumbersome and boring that I've pretty much neglected the entire editing process until recently, so expect the next update to have everything revised and hopefully polished.
It will come when it comes out (hopefully not months from now...)
It will come when it comes out (hopefully not months from now...)
Edit: Just so you people know, I've pretty much finished the most recent chapter, all I have to do is edit chapters/days 2-7
