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I don't have a routine.
I could be described as having writer's block right now; I was devoting pretty much all my creative output to Effulgence, which ground to a screeching halt due to coauthor brain problems, and now I am metaphorically upside-down like a particularly unfortunate turtle. I have been trying various things but nothing has produced good results yet (I have written, like, one short story, but no chapters). However, I have every expectation of being able to return to Effulgence full speed ahead when my coauthor can even if I don't manage to budge my novels between now and then.
I do almost no revising after I've gotten an entire chapter down (though I will sometimes iterate a sentence a bit while it's in progress, and I will rearrange paragraphs if my beta readers suggest it while I'm writing for my test audience.). I don't like revision after that; it slows me down and makes me second-guess myself and hate my output faster than I normally start to and leaves me with questionable mental maps of what has and has not happened. I will correct typos and grammatical errors and the like when I am made aware of them. Elcenia as it currently stands is a complete reboot which I generate without directly consulting the original - I extracted a loose plot outline, massaged it into making somewhat better sense, and haven't opened the old documents since except to remind myself of how to spell things and various assignments of numerical value, I write from the plot outline and memory. Effulgence I can't even fix typos because of the limitations of the Dreamwidth platform, so that's closer to literally no revision.
That's pretty interesting, thanks. More questions!
Suppose for the sake of the argument that copyright problems do not exist, and you're offered to publish Luminosity as a book. Would you then want to work with editors/copyeditors and change the text substantially according to their suggestions, or are you more like "this is done, feel free to fix typos but otherwise take it or leave it"?
Do you have a day job? A profession? What are they? Do you like them? (obviously feel free to ignore etc.)
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