I Feel This In My Soul

I feel this in my soul

Planting the seeds of creativity (and those are coffee beans)

@the-wip-project Day 73

Are you a plotter, a pantser, or a plantser? Would you like to be different than you are?

I had never heard the word 'plantser' before so I had a quick look-up (even if I don't answer all your questions, I read them all and think them through 😘) And the revelation is that I'm definitely a plantser!! While I used to see myself as, mostly, a pantser, the definition that I read of a plantser is closer to what I do.

In one of my previous answers, I told how much I love letting my imagination and creativity run free, despite the drawbacks of losing track of an idea for instance. What this new word includes is the process of expansion my mind engages in once I have an idea; how I build up the universe, the characters' main traits, the forthcoming action, dialogues, movements... one step at a time. It doesn't mean I don't know where I am going. I always keep in my mind-eye the ending line and a few mandatory scenes I just have to write. The rest though, is up to my typing, one chapter after another, just as the filling scenes, which the last question tackled, appear by magic whenever I sit down to write (I don't trust all of them, mind you)

I don't/can't plan a lot in advance or it would clutter my mind and block me much more than one can imagine, oddly enough, and that would result in triggering actual pressure over my wips and my writing.

Fun fact, I found that the idea of a 'percolator' was sometimes associated to this kind of creative process: "let[ting] the drips of a story filter through my mind over a long period of time, letting it steam and swirl about without determining it." (source: wikiwrimo.org)

No need to tell your local coffee-addict servant anything more...

what she says: I’m a plantser :)

what she means: I like to know the bare bones and the major plot points before I start writing, but figure out the details as I go along

what she really means: I can’t write unless I know what’s going to happen, but I can’t figure out what’s going to happen unless I write but I can’t write unless 

@the-wip-project Day 32

What’s your favorite trope you’re not writing and why?

I don't think I have a favorite trope overall, whether in reading, or (even less) in writing. My reading depends on my mood of the day, so I've covered a large variety of tropes that I thoroughly enjoy. I figured some that I don't particularly like, so obviously my writing is going to stay away from those.

There are some tropes that I really like but would not try out (like royals au for instance), for the simple reason that, so far, no idea of a plot, or a prompt, has emerged in my mind. But I wouldn't go as far as saying that I will not write any at all. Mafia au are also really cool, but complex to set up. I'm not sure my imagination is as flexible as it needs to be to imagine a world of crime and violence (graphic or not).

But now that I think about it, no trope is as intimidating as canon compliant. I'd be too afraid to mess things up, while I love reading about it. Some writers are exceedingly good at it!

@the-wip-project Day 39

What kind of traits make a character interesting?

I've read a bunch of answers to this question, and like @sayonaramidnight, multi-layered, complex, conflicted characters are the most appealing to me. Especially if this complexity is non-apparent from the start. It automatically pulls me to the edge of my seat, expectant of the moment when they'll jump that plot-cliff. I'll be ready jump with them!

One collateral answer could be this, I live for the moments when this character is making THE DECISION™. The one that's going to flick the first domino of the series and trigger the course of actions they didn't know they needed. It might come with some collateral damage, some violent life-changing upheavals, heart-breaks, the end of important relationships even.

Such decisions require a determination that doesn't come easily for some types of characters. It can take a few chapters to bud and grow; it also can the spur of a instant. In any case, it's a beautiful thing to witness, as a reader and as a writer (*sniffles* proud) But the courage that comes thereafter to face the consequences is what makes a character a hero to me!

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