Creation

[Madman Starryteller]

This thread is about the creation of fictional settings, stuff, and worlds.

I love to create. Whenever I come up with some fictional item or thing, I feel satisfied.

Sometimes I think of random people in my world and what they may see and experience. I give them names and follow them either for a day or for a sped-up lifetime. It's how I sometimes come up with stories.

How do you create? What do you create? Do you like the process? Let's play gods and talk creation!

I believe that to create is to be aligned with the universe's foremost purpose.

 

[Louanne Learning]

How do you create?

It all happens in my mind, often with a little push from something I have read.

What do you create? Do you like the process?

I seem to put most of my focus on characters. (I wish I was stronger in plot construction.) The process can be pain-staking, but it’s all worth it once you have completed the story. Enormous satisfaction.

I believe that to create is to be aligned with the universe's foremost purpose.

I agree. There is a whole philosophy behind this. There are our basic needs – like food, sex and love – and then to go beyond to the discover in us makes us feel entirely more complete. It’s like realizing your full humanity. To create, I think, is the mind’s highest calling.

 

[JT Woody]

this is why i like writing fantasy versus real world stuff.
it gives me a chance to be god of my own universe. I was never allowed to play Sims growing up because it was "too adult" (says parents). but when I became old enough to play it, i really didnt have an interest because i was doing the whole Sims thing with my writing. Creating characters, putting them in worlds of my own creation, with my own rules (sorta)

 

[Louanne Learning]

I have to say, I really like the premise of this thread and I hope many members share their ideas and insights about the wonderful process of creation.

 

[Dogberry's Watch]

How do you create?

Randomly. Sometimes I'll be inspired by the way a person walks through my department at work, sometimes it's the way sunlight hits the trees, it can be just about anything that sparks an "I should write this down." I get titles first, for a lot of the shorter stories I write, and I get characters for the longer pieces.

What do you create?

Poetry, short stories, and novels/series, for the most part.

Do you like the process?

Most certainly. I am an old school writer where I handwrite first (I've said so in many other places on the forum, so it's not a surprise or new to hear), but I do it because it feels correct. Typing words out is mindless to me. I type really fast and the words don't come out properly. It's a jumble of thought and letters rather than the construction of words and phrases I feel when I write by hand. I can get the form of a letter and see how it exists at the end of my pen (or pencil).