My writing process is kind of stupid--I drag myself through it kicking and screaming pretty much every time. (Actually, that's how I do a great deal of what I do.) I really like writing, but I have this weird quirk where I generally only write stories I haven't seen others do (which is why my mylar_fic exchange piece for aurilly turned out so weird), so I don't know how to write the fic I want to write until I've already written it. It takes a long time, and I need to write the story in order, lest by the time I reach a scene I've written in advance, I find that it's completely inappropriate for what I've written to go before it.
I like writing drama the most, but not angst. I tend to think of drama as being when the point of the story is that a lot of stuff happens between the characters, and angst as being a subset of drama where the stuff that happens between the characters is, well, angsty. I also think of romance as a subset of drama, but I generally write gen drama. Actually, the story I wrote for last Christmas' heroes_exchange turned out to be really angsty, but I didn't realize that until I got comments saying so. As I was writing it, I was just describing what happened. So maybe my angst radar is broken or something.
As for betas, I don't use one unless I have to for an exchange, but I always use the same one when beta reading is required because she's awesome. I love my beta to pieces, but I'm often looking for odd things from a beta that are hard to ask for, so most of the time it's easier to just figure things out on my own instead of describing them for my beta. Like, for instance, I'll wonder about the number of syllables in a certain sentence, or the frequency at which I bring up a certain theme. (Wow, this is making me feel really pretentious.) Sometimes I want to, like, record a commentary track for a fic detailing my concerns before I send it off to a beta. Actually, I've done that when beta reading someone else's work, and it was really useful in helping me figure out what I wanted to say before I started typing it all out.
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I like writing drama the most, but not angst. I tend to think of drama as being when the point of the story is that a lot of stuff happens between the characters, and angst as being a subset of drama where the stuff that happens between the characters is, well, angsty. I also think of romance as a subset of drama, but I generally write gen drama. Actually, the story I wrote for last Christmas' heroes_exchange turned out to be really angsty, but I didn't realize that until I got comments saying so. As I was writing it, I was just describing what happened. So maybe my angst radar is broken or something.
As for betas, I don't use one unless I have to for an exchange, but I always use the same one when beta reading is required because she's awesome. I love my beta to pieces, but I'm often looking for odd things from a beta that are hard to ask for, so most of the time it's easier to just figure things out on my own instead of describing them for my beta. Like, for instance, I'll wonder about the number of syllables in a certain sentence, or the frequency at which I bring up a certain theme. (Wow, this is making me feel really pretentious.) Sometimes I want to, like, record a commentary track for a fic detailing my concerns before I send it off to a beta. Actually, I've done that when beta reading someone else's work, and it was really useful in helping me figure out what I wanted to say before I started typing it all out.