me, waking up: oh another day. then, after reading your answer: HOLY SHIT. guess i'm now the loving ramble enabler (LRE?). and DO NOT apologize for being passionate about smt that makes you happy you lovely human being that u are! hearing you ramble (how many times will i use this word idek) about the creation process made my day dammit! and i can assure you, reading about it is as good as reading the masterpiece itself, especially considering how good you are at manifesting the vibes (tm) (pt1)
(pt 2 bc word count sucks) how did you first get interested in pirate history? (if you don't mind me asking ofc) *slides 15 bucks* please, be my guest. do tell us more about the writing/revision process. sincerely, a genuinely interested person currently wondering why the fuck tumblr won't let her do a paragraph break. have a lovely night/day!
bestie ur rly enabling me đ ur so sweet skSJKAJSk i will tell u so much under this god damn cutÂ
first because this is the easy response: how did u get interested in pirate history????
short answer: keira knightley in pirates of the caribbean BYE đ
long answer: itâs basically a mix of those movies being a centerpiece of my childhood and me just thinking pirates are cool SKJSKAj iâm very much into history n my uni had a course on âhistory of piratesâ last spring so i took it as smth to do during quarantine and i ended up really loving it !!! iâm actually workin on historical fiction short story abt anne bonny and mary read rn which required me to do a lot more research on pirates (under the black flag by david cordingly is a very good book on piracy!) and my research has been very interesting just in general and for writing the odyssey â i've incorporated little historical tidbits here n there to add to the world-building :â)
next: ur writing process
ok so letâs go cray besties iâm going to tell u abt the life of adele writing the odyssey!!!! iâll try talking abt this in some semblance of a logical step-by-step
1. manifesting vibes + outline
i talked abt this last time but manifesting the vibes is very important ! the first things i like to do when getting ready to write a new chapter is define the setting â place(s), weather, time, and general moodÂ
while i have a pretty good idea of how many chapters it will be and where the odyssey ends, i usually donât plan a chapter in super great detail until itâs time to sit down n write it. i have general points of people to include + things that would be important to the plot + vibes i hope to include (parts 6 and 7 r gonna SLAP!!), but these never get fleshed out until itâs Time. my outlines are therefore usually not very detailed because i like to give the odyssey room to do its own thing â i find it important that the story takes its time and we get to the important stuff whenever it wants us to. an outline will usually b something like, in the case of the furies call part 2:Â
find megumi, talk abt his role in the zenin clan â naoya arrives on shore and shit hits the fan â run to find mai, maki fights her father â fight between naoya and todou â todou dies because you canât kill naoya â sukuna rescues reader and it ends
after i have smth that looks like this as well as a decently clear idea of how everything will look and feel we get started!!
2. writing (pain)
arguably the worst stage for any creator! writing! at this point i genuinely just let go and let god tbh. i have no idea how i do things at this stage other than see how many commas + dumb poetic phrases i can include SKKSJKA â sometimes things just happen and itâs really cool!! for example in part 4 i didnât know the guns warehouse was going to blow up until i was writing it and it just happenedÂ
i do have a set quota of words i meet every time i sit down to write so that i A. feel accomplished and happy when i'm done, even if it sucks and B. donât get burnout and start hating what i do. this stage is always difficult because writing is just hard and takes a lot of brainpower and self-discipline </3
i wld say the hardest part is that i run the risk of getting very overwhelmed â by the complexities of the plot, by how fucking long it takes me to write, by how much work writing itself is ! for example, abt 7k or so into part 5 i started having the worst existential dread when i realized that this chapter was not even halfway done and i wld have to surpass 15k before it was (at the time of writing this, part 5 is 16.3 đ) it just gets hard sometimes to overcome that and maintain the motivation to keep going and know that everything will be fine when itâs done â thankfully everyone here is so patient and sweet so it makes me feel better when i'm taking forever and/or need time off <333
basically, as always, the pain of writing is just having to write and come to terms with the fact no one else is going to manifest it for u. and have fun too!! writing is only fun when ur writing what u think is coolÂ
3. revision (less pain)
one of the fun stages, but also the point when i start to become impatient! writing an odyssey chapter can easily take 2.5-3 weeks even if i'm writing my quota every single day (part 5 took roughly 3 weeks of writing every god damn afternoon) and after that i spend another few weeks just going back and rereading/fixing everything.Â
i basically start by rereading sections of the chapter to change sentence structure, grammar, dialogue, or whatever else i donât like â sometimes sentences sound stupid or certain things donât make a whole lot of sense so i like to go back and polish up! for example i changed the arrival of maki/mai/nobara in furies call part 1 about ten times before i decided it made sense to me
this step can be horrendous because i'll often write things really shitty in the first draft with a âiâll come back to this laterâ mindset and then get mad at myself later for being a hoe <//3
in essence, i'm a horrible perfectionist so i will usually reread everything and change or add things multiple times before i think i'm finally ready to share. most of the time, as the chapter gets closer and closer to completion i become more and more hyper-fixated on it â iâll start spending almost all of my free time just rereading and looking for minor fixes or places that donât vibe as well.Â
at the end of this step, my favorite thing to do before i queue the chapter up to post is sit down and just read the entire thing once or twice and give it one last kiss before i send her off into the world <3
so anyway thereâs my ted talk of how i usually make the odyssey ! i vibe, write, revise n take forever to do all three steps but thatâs just part of the fun! thank u for tuning in if u have any other questions u wld like me to overshare on i am more than happy to talk abt it :â)
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