I think, for me, most of these poll questions would depend on the fandom I'm writing for.
Yeah, I definitely agree there, particularly with the pairings. Some of it is dictated by length, since it's pretty much impossible for me to be funny for more than five thousand words and then best you'll get out of me then is a neutral tone with some kind of action plot if it goes much longer than that. A lot of it is also my favorite character being Peter and the characters interacting with him influence a lot of the tone of the story -- if it's Daphne, it'll be light and funny, but if it's nearly anyone else, they'll get sucked into his issues.
The actual writing process is ... eh, none of the options really cover it. I only wish that it took two or three writing sessions. I realize that while I feel it takes forever, though, writing ten thousand words in a couple of weeks isn't actually that bad. I just usually have to open the document every day and add a little bit, or revise a little. Usually I write the most on weekends or days I've been to the gym, so I've had a lot of brainstorming time where I could not actually write that instant.
I must write chronologically, too, which sucks at times. I've tried going out of order or just doing a sketchy version and then filling it in later, but that mostly results in me not bothering to finish anything since it seems "done enough." Which, again, sucks because it means that I get hung up on single lines of dialogue in scenes that I really want to move past, but can't until I don't hate them. Leaving the story to sit and ignoring it for days until I don't hate it as much is a big part of my process. :/
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Yeah, I definitely agree there, particularly with the pairings. Some of it is dictated by length, since it's pretty much impossible for me to be funny for more than five thousand words and then best you'll get out of me then is a neutral tone with some kind of action plot if it goes much longer than that. A lot of it is also my favorite character being Peter and the characters interacting with him influence a lot of the tone of the story -- if it's Daphne, it'll be light and funny, but if it's nearly anyone else, they'll get sucked into his issues.
The actual writing process is ... eh, none of the options really cover it. I only wish that it took two or three writing sessions. I realize that while I feel it takes forever, though, writing ten thousand words in a couple of weeks isn't actually that bad. I just usually have to open the document every day and add a little bit, or revise a little. Usually I write the most on weekends or days I've been to the gym, so I've had a lot of brainstorming time where I could not actually write that instant.
I must write chronologically, too, which sucks at times. I've tried going out of order or just doing a sketchy version and then filling it in later, but that mostly results in me not bothering to finish anything since it seems "done enough." Which, again, sucks because it means that I get hung up on single lines of dialogue in scenes that I really want to move past, but can't until I don't hate them. Leaving the story to sit and ignoring it for days until I don't hate it as much is a big part of my process. :/