Step One

I generally start any given chapter, post, or synopsis in my head. I can be on the can, in the shower, or half asleep. When inspiration or obsession hits, I do my best to write down the idea.

Most things never leave my brain to get to the page. I end up with a notebook full of ideas. However if I set out thinking about a chapter, whats in my head often hits the page.

Step 2

Whatever it is, I almost always hand write it. This, in my experience, acts as both a rough draft, and nails the content into my brain. True memory rather than a scratch pad.

I prefer to use fountain pens, over every other device ive tried. That said I do want to get a typewriter sometime. That'd be fun.

When I first started writing stories, I always hand wrote them. I didn't always have access to technology, but I always had a light, a pencil, and a composition book.

Even today most of those stories are in my head, at least the gist of them.

So therefore I try to hand write everything.

C

Sometimes I skip 2, and go straight here. Typing. Finally. I have a very nice setup in my editor on this site, so it makes it easy to simply write on the site.

Regardless, this usually consists of me disregarding my notebook, writing fresh rather than copying word for word what I hand wrote. While I do this, I follow the basics of what I wrote on paper, expanding it, adding detail, and making it better than the draft was.

This usually serves as the final product. I hate revising.

IV

The biggest thing is to do what you're comfortable with. I love my multi step process, some love revision. It's all up to you.

Sometimes you just have to discard a chunk. That happens all the time. Sometimes the chunk is saved for future reference, headcanon, or lore.

The biggest thing of all, just write!