Snowflake Challenge #7 and 8
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soricelChallenge #7
LIST THREE (or more) THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF. They don’t have to be your favorite things, just things that you think are good. Feel free to expand as much or as little as you want.
1.) I like that I frequently seek out new things to learn or do related to my hobbies and interests.
2.) I like my sense of amateurism. I think I'm pretty decent at certain things I do, like writing, and it's nice when I notice a positive shift. But I don't really have any strong ambitions to get "better" or "bigger" or something. And plus, at a time when so much of what we see and consume feels super polished and "perfect" or aspirational, I have more appreciation for things that are rough around the edges and seem comfortable existing in their particular little lanes, including the things I make and do.
3.) Related, I like that I'm generally content with my life these days.
Challenge #8
Talk about your creative process.
I guess it depends on the project, but I'll focus on writing. Usually a story or a poem starts with an image or a line of dialogue that gets stuck in my head, and I start building around that by imagining moments or ideas that connect to it. When I'm ready to sit down to write, sometimes I start with that original image/dialogue and then go back and write my way up to it, or if I feel like I have a plot already pretty well-structured in my head, I'll just start at the beginning. Sometimes I find a full conversation just rolls out of me pretty quickly once I have a first piece of dialogue in my head, so I'll just write that all out and then go back and give the characters somewhere to be and something to do while they're talking.
I tend to write short stuff (like three minute poems or fics of 1,000 words or less), in part because I'm more interested in sort of zooming in on and out of significant, loaded moments than telling big long stories, and also because I really like playing with language. Even if I really like the content of what I've written, I don't really feel comfortable putting it out into the world if I haven't given a good amount of attention to rhythm, rhyme, figurative language, and that kind of stuff (mostly in poetry, but in prose too). I also try to give a lot of attention to the moment/line a piece ends on, but I'm trying to see how it feels to write and share things that end a little more abruptly or less tidily.
I usually share my poems with my partner before I go read them at an open mic or something, but with fic, I tend to just post it as soon as it feels done. I do tend to go back and edit little things here and there after I post, though.
LIST THREE (or more) THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF. They don’t have to be your favorite things, just things that you think are good. Feel free to expand as much or as little as you want.
1.) I like that I frequently seek out new things to learn or do related to my hobbies and interests.
2.) I like my sense of amateurism. I think I'm pretty decent at certain things I do, like writing, and it's nice when I notice a positive shift. But I don't really have any strong ambitions to get "better" or "bigger" or something. And plus, at a time when so much of what we see and consume feels super polished and "perfect" or aspirational, I have more appreciation for things that are rough around the edges and seem comfortable existing in their particular little lanes, including the things I make and do.
3.) Related, I like that I'm generally content with my life these days.
Challenge #8
Talk about your creative process.
I guess it depends on the project, but I'll focus on writing. Usually a story or a poem starts with an image or a line of dialogue that gets stuck in my head, and I start building around that by imagining moments or ideas that connect to it. When I'm ready to sit down to write, sometimes I start with that original image/dialogue and then go back and write my way up to it, or if I feel like I have a plot already pretty well-structured in my head, I'll just start at the beginning. Sometimes I find a full conversation just rolls out of me pretty quickly once I have a first piece of dialogue in my head, so I'll just write that all out and then go back and give the characters somewhere to be and something to do while they're talking.
I tend to write short stuff (like three minute poems or fics of 1,000 words or less), in part because I'm more interested in sort of zooming in on and out of significant, loaded moments than telling big long stories, and also because I really like playing with language. Even if I really like the content of what I've written, I don't really feel comfortable putting it out into the world if I haven't given a good amount of attention to rhythm, rhyme, figurative language, and that kind of stuff (mostly in poetry, but in prose too). I also try to give a lot of attention to the moment/line a piece ends on, but I'm trying to see how it feels to write and share things that end a little more abruptly or less tidily.
I usually share my poems with my partner before I go read them at an open mic or something, but with fic, I tend to just post it as soon as it feels done. I do tend to go back and edit little things here and there after I post, though.
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Date: 2026-01-15 03:50 pm (UTC)The ending is soooo important! Gives it that ooomph.
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Date: 2026-01-15 03:52 pm (UTC)Your process sounds pretty good, too. Super long stories aren't everyone's jam, and I've known people who write poetry. Kinda envy them, I'm not great at it!
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Date: 2026-01-16 05:00 am (UTC)If nothing else, I think trying to write poetry occasionally can be helpful for prose fiction writing too...it helps me pay a little closer attention to my language and how lines "sound."
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Date: 2026-01-16 05:16 am (UTC)This is such a lovely sentiment!
It's so interesting reading about your process. Sometimes I do that too - write out the dialogue first and then go back and add things to indicate what the characters are doing.
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Date: 2026-01-16 03:26 pm (UTC)And yeah...I find those fics flow a lot more quickly and smoothly than fics that are mostly like quiet interiority and stuff, even if it means going back and fleshing out the conversation with all the missing narration.