Please do steal it! DVD commentary is my personal favorite meme.
I am, what my pro-writer friends call a "pantser" - that is, I write by the seat of my pants. My outlining, if there is any, comes in the form of google-chats with writing and crit partners. Sometimes I distill those notes, most times I don't. But the worldbuilding pretty much happens as I write.
The Helios world comes from my love of mythology - classical Greco-Roman and Celtic. BUT ... the little details are spur of the moment things. When I identified June as The Summer Queen, it seemed completely natural that her laugh would make the flowers bloom. It was like an equation - it felt like the natural order of things.
And other details - like "Prince Mozziel" being able to pick up information out of the ether - that was taken right from one of the scenes cut out of Pilot (There's a scene where Neal takes Peter to meet Moz in a key shop. Moz "hears" things and it's pretty clear that he's borderline delusional. Far more crazy than he was portrayed elsewhere).
Ideas come from all sorts of places - I decided to write a wingfic story because a friend was writing a story where one of the characters had a beanie. Do beanies = wings. Absolutely not, but it just sort of worked (at least for me).
I keep a moleskine notebook by my desk and sometimes I will write down ideas. But most of the time, they are in my head.
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Date: 2012-03-14 12:33 pm (UTC)I am, what my pro-writer friends call a "pantser" - that is, I write by the seat of my pants. My outlining, if there is any, comes in the form of google-chats with writing and crit partners. Sometimes I distill those notes, most times I don't. But the worldbuilding pretty much happens as I write.
The Helios world comes from my love of mythology - classical Greco-Roman and Celtic. BUT ... the little details are spur of the moment things. When I identified June as The Summer Queen, it seemed completely natural that her laugh would make the flowers bloom. It was like an equation - it felt like the natural order of things.
And other details - like "Prince Mozziel" being able to pick up information out of the ether - that was taken right from one of the scenes cut out of Pilot (There's a scene where Neal takes Peter to meet Moz in a key shop. Moz "hears" things and it's pretty clear that he's borderline delusional. Far more crazy than he was portrayed elsewhere).
Ideas come from all sorts of places - I decided to write a wingfic story because a friend was writing a story where one of the characters had a beanie. Do beanies = wings. Absolutely not, but it just sort of worked (at least for me).
I keep a moleskine notebook by my desk and sometimes I will write down ideas. But most of the time, they are in my head.