What is the greatest joy of writing for you?
Everybody has a creative spark inside.
I started serious writing in 2014. It's the most enjoyable thing I've ever done. Who wouldn't like to just let their imagination go for a while, first thing in the morning?...
Creating and developing three-dimensional characters is enormous fun. It is getting easier with every effort I make on a story. Once i create a character, he or she must behave consistently with their personality make-up in the story (Duh!). Inconsistencies show up really fast. I know when I need to go back to the drawing board to clean things up.
To sum it up, I think this mode of personal expression is the greatest thing since sliced bread. I am so grateful for the chance to become self-published, regardless of any market success. Boy! Does that sound impractical, or what?
What is your writing process?
I'm still new at this, so it probably will sound a little too mechanical, too structured. That's because I was an Engineering Major in college, and a Project Management consultant for many years, with a very disciplined and structured way of looking at the world. It probably got me in trouble, because it made no room for unbridled creativity
In my first work, I was a very deliberate. I used a step-by-step process - from notes, to general outline, to detailed outline, to tweaks, to the actual writing of the narrative. Sometimes I feel it's too much process, not enough free-flowing creativity.
I don't have the same easy way of writing that Mozart had for writing music - which, by the way, he wrote completely, right through, without any corrections on his music sheets, blowing the minds of his most important rivals.
But, if I can write something creative, and if it is successful in the market, then for sure, anyone else can do the same or even better.
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