Fencer_x asked Jordan L. Hawk:

Hi! I love getting peeks into your writing process as you casually mention rewrites or outlining or funny typos on twitter and was wondering if you might share your writing process, and how much time you spend? Do you write scenes/lines that come to you immediately, regardless of placement, or does that not really happen to you? 'Write a novel' is my 2015 goal, and I'm curious about others' processes!

Jordan L. Hawk Depending on the length of the work (novel or novella) I spend between 2 and 4 weeks researching, world-building, and outlining. By the time I start writing I have a fairly complete outline, although it's subject to change as I go along. I'll make a note in the outline of a scene or line as it comes to me, but I only write linearly, starting at the beginning and going through until I hit the end. Sometimes I get part way through and realize something isn't working right, at which point I figure out how to fix it. If it's major, I'll go back and rewrite on the spot; otherwise, I keep pressing forward and fix it during revisions.

Once it's as good as I can make it, I send it to my beta reader, fix anything he suggests, then send it on to my editor and start on the next book. I set deadlines for every stage of the process, because otherwise I'd never get anything done. :)

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