Snowflake Challenge #8

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Challenge #8

Talk about your creative process.

Ideas for fic or collages sometimes just come to me. Sometimes I get ideas from Youtube videos or something I read or the seasons or holidays. I suppose my creative process is 'parody until it's mine.' Meaning, I try to follow something (a collage by a Youtuber or a source AU like a film or novel or short story) and then usually somewhere between halfway and two-thirds into it, the collage, the fic, I stop paying attention to the guide (or whatever I am trying to mimic) and just keep going. It's like the training wheels fly off and I'm coasting on my own speed.

I did learn over the winter that I feel grumpy if I don't collage (or something else crafty) at least once a week. Earlier, I had regarded it a hobby I could take or leave but I think it's become more important to my equilibrium than that.

Also, creating for someone (gift, card, gift fic) is much more motivating than creating for myself.

Comments

[smallhobbit]

I definitely agree that I'm more motivated when creating for someone else, and also when it's present.