I am curious to know how other people actually get it down, as in write.
For me it’s a strange process and maybe bad I don’t know, as it’s the only way I can. The thoughts spill out of my head and I have to type them down at top speed. I pay no attention to spelling, grammar or punctuation. Just concentrate on getting the idea out of my head – it’s almost if I am talking to myself in a steady flow and I can hardly keep up.
Then after about a thousand words or so, I go back and read over what I have created. It’s an unintelligible scrawl of thoughts and ideas interspersed with dialogue. The next part I really like, slowly sorting out the mass of jumbled words arranging them in order, adding the details, the descriptions the slow polish, like moulding a lump of clay into a recognisable shape.
I have tried to start off slowly and carefully and I simply can’t work that way.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on how you write?
Writing is such an emotional act for me. Endless typing, countless beginnings, ways to start, frustration because I can't put the words together, screaming, running/exercise and eventually the result. Give me one word and it can cause the river of ideas, thoughts and things I want to simply share with someone, everyone starts to flow in such a speed. I write the beginning of every story like up to seven times, then reread them, choose one, write the rest and reread that raw piece of literature about five times to smoothen the sentences, to perfection it. When I start I have absolutely no idea where the story will head until it's done.
I'm inspired by an unknown force. The words flow smoothly, but the editing reveals any clumsiness; it tidies up in the end.
I agree with your idea too..it's my pattern of writing..i put down every inspirational messages i get immediately without minding the grammar and the puntuation marks at first in order not to loose the message...later i will begin to arrange the messages accordingly with the correct grammar and the appropriate marks....i dont add or subtract..i only put down what i heard...at the start i may not know the outcome of the end..i only follow instruction by the force leading me