The main one I'm wondering is - at what point do you impose the whole symmetrical structure onto the puzzle? Is the shape something that happens at the beginning? Toward the middle? I guess in general - what is the order of operations for figuring out clues, answers, shape of puzzle, etc?
Then also wondering if there are elements that separate difficulty aside from obscureness of clues and size of puzzle? Like, do things with two word answers generally then cause you to aim for a harder overall puzzle? (From solver POV, those are always harder.)
What are the bits that are hardest about making the puzzles?
Do you get editorial comments back on submissions, generally, or do things get a sort of binary acceptance/rejection?
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Date: 2022-06-28 03:53 pm (UTC)The main one I'm wondering is - at what point do you impose the whole symmetrical structure onto the puzzle? Is the shape something that happens at the beginning? Toward the middle? I guess in general - what is the order of operations for figuring out clues, answers, shape of puzzle, etc?
Then also wondering if there are elements that separate difficulty aside from obscureness of clues and size of puzzle? Like, do things with two word answers generally then cause you to aim for a harder overall puzzle? (From solver POV, those are always harder.)
What are the bits that are hardest about making the puzzles?
Do you get editorial comments back on submissions, generally, or do things get a sort of binary acceptance/rejection?
...see, I told you I had too many questions. :P