#WIPChat #CreativitySupport
Everything but writing.
What non-writing tools do you use to aid
in your #amwriting
creativity
PART 1
Question 1: Have you ever used non-written creative prompts: ie. music, pictures or other items as tools to support your creativity?
A1: I used a lot of different non-writing things to help me “get in the mood”
to write or change perspectives between WIPs. I have picture aesthetics,
playlists, different colored pens, and even different candles.
Question 2: Do you make Pinterest Boards or
Picture Aesthetics to support your creative process? Do you make drawings or
maps? A mock-up book cover? Please share an image or share a link
A2: I make book covers and aesthetics for WIPs and different MCs. I feel like
seeing them and seeing the places helps me step back into the #WIPWorld
Question 3: Do you use music to aid in your creative
process or as an aid to focus on your writing? What style is it? Would you
share a link to the sound of your #WIPWorld?
A3: Music is very important to setting my mood. I use epic rock and modern symphonic rock like Ivan Torrent and Fearless Motivations for my sci-fi fantasy. I think movie and gamer music works great for writing. Brunuhville, Celtic Wolf, and Ziegler for werewolves. Electro-swing and Timmy Trumpet for Contemporary Women. My fav female MCs are voiced by Enya, Ruelle, Eurielle and Within Temptation.
Here is a link to my NaNo 2021 project playlist >>> Revelation Night Series Playlist
PART 2
Question 4: Do you eat a certain thing or
drink a certain beverage when you write? Does the ‘menu’ change with the
#WIPWorld or Character you are writing?
A4: I always drink Coffee and Tea but my food changes. If my #WIPWorld is build around a baker, I find myself baking. A chef, I cook. The most challenging WIP menu I created I would never eat, it was sci-fi alien food-NOPE!
Question 5: Do you have a preferred
environment to write in? A preferred location or favorite chair?
A5: I prefer to
write at home, but I often #amwriting in the car or while waiting for
appointments. I will say I want to be warm when I write.
Question 6: Is there a place you hate to write or a distraction that will absolutely ruin any chance you have of writing? What kills your #amwriting mood?
A6: Not really any place I hate writing, but #MomLife and #FarmLife means sometime things blow up. The kids destressing or bickering after school kills my mood, so no writing until after dinner or bedtime.
A7: Be for the Pandie my #amwriting time started with #5amwritersclub then after #farmlife and
chores. Now my writing time is in the midmorning to afternoon. I write to help keep my mind focused on something besides my health and
pain issues. I find if I am not keeping my mind busy, I lose time.
Part 3
Community support system - find your creative posse or tribe
Question 8 Do you have family, friends, or acquaintances that actively and in-person support your writing? Does this make you feel better or worse about your writing?
A8 My family doesn’t read my writing because I don’t write in genres they read, except the Middle child. I will read books onto audio files for my brother and my Hubby has heard me talk about many new story ideas that excite me. I feel very sad and disconnected because they have no interest in something I work so hard on, and that is okay. They are not obligate to “LOVE” my passion and I truly do appreciate their tolerance of my sometimes VERY odd behavior.
Question 9
Do you belong to an in-person writing group, NaNo write-in group, or book
club? How has the Pandemic limited or affected your socializing with your
creative posse, if you have one?
A9 I live in a very rural area so no live-write-ins or even
a book club.
Question 10 Support can come virtually as well, there are hundreds of online communities for writers. Do you feel connected to a particular online or social media writing group? Have you found your tribe?
A 10 I found reading and writing communities on several
platforms and I love them. I have made many good friends that I hope to meet in
the IRL someday. I know other writers through Facebook, Twitter, Twitch,
Youtube, Discord, and Instagram, though I am not on all these platforms daily
or even weekly in some cases.
Question 11 Every interest group comes with SHADE! Have you encountered someone one with a disparaging opinion? Were you able to overcome the negativity or anger, or drama or did it linger and disrupt your creative process?
A 11: Who hasn’t? I try not to let it get to me but sometimes it does. I just remind myself there are people who like my stories and don’t care that I don’t have a specific degree or a literary agent. There was once that is really disturbed my process when someone I thought was friend adjacent bashed my #HMC2021 productivity goal and called me toxically positive. I felt like she was calling me liar to my face. It felt like my safe space had been violated and I had to step back for a bit, but the proof was on my Amazon and Inkitt pages, I still don’t understand what it bothered me so much and it took me some time to Stop Taking It Personally. That is the only advice I can give, “Don’t take it personally”, or step back until you can reach a place where you are no longer feeling it was personal. It wasn’t.
Selfcare IS Creative Support.
PART 4
Self-care IS Creative support and Procrastination can be
too!
Self-care- YOU deserve it. Life is hard so get your dopamine reward when you can!
Question 12 What non-writing related forms of selfcare do you enjoy? A walk and favorite café lunch, a bubble bath and glass of wine, a new notebook or novel to read, a cake slice and cuppa, or something else?
A 12 I will get myself a new coffee cup or a half-pound of gourmet coffee. I also will bake a little something something sweet.
Question 13 Do you rank your rewards by goal value? Goal values means you purposely set some goals as having a greater reward (and stress value) than others? You know, the big goal little goal thing.
A 13 I set little and big goals but well… See the next
question.
Question 14 How do you reward yourself for
reaching writing, editing, or other non-writerly goals? Do you PLAN to reward
yourself or is it more of a spontaneous reward? Or, be honest, do you forget to
reward yourself?
A 14 – Yes, I plan my rewards for my goals but honestly, I
usually forget.
Question 15 Do you procrastinate? Procrastination can be Sanity-Care and Self-Care when goals and life are overwhelming.
If you are finding other things to do than write, then it isn’t you; it’s your project, it’s your stress level, it’s our loud world. Don’t beat yourself up if you just don’t feel like writing. Support your creative process by not forcing it.
A 15 Hello, my name
is Mama Magie and I procrastinate when I don’t want to do something (social
media *cough cough*) or when I am stuck in a place. Sometimes, I just need to
let my Muse flit off the plot path because the story flow just isn’t working.
If my usual tricks for overcoming BLOCK don’t work, then I will switch projects,
as proven by the number of times I have abandoned on particular story in favor
of another.
Take care of yourself, self-care is important as an aspect
of Creative Support. NaNoWriMo is one day away, You Can Do IT! Don’t stress the
word count. #NoWordsLeftBehind
Thank you for reading and watching. Be Blessed.
