tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486027252802681746.post3120790143449240935..comments2023-04-09T09:21:14.198-05:00Comments on MTV Books: Work in progressJennifer Echolshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15757825467796917325noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486027252802681746.post-21846377137208663912010-06-16T12:28:24.624-05:002010-06-16T12:28:24.624-05:00I start out in order for the first fifty pages or ...I start out in order for the first fifty pages or so and once I have a good hang of the story, I skip all over the place. This time I went right to the ending and was really happy that I did. So I agree, whatever works for you is the right way!Danielle Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03812558505229235492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486027252802681746.post-78014753179721220762010-06-13T19:30:45.358-05:002010-06-13T19:30:45.358-05:00I have never written in "order" either! ...I have never written in "order" either! And it's worked for me. But for some reason I'm writing my latest book in order and it's freaking painful. And slow. And I hate it, but I have trouble thinking about this story in any other way than chronological, which may be why I'm having such a dreadful time of it!Jenny O'Connellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486027252802681746.post-7948527966424274882010-06-12T14:49:47.681-05:002010-06-12T14:49:47.681-05:00You gotta do what you gotta do.
I'm so linea...You gotta do what you gotta do. <br /><br />I'm so linear it's freaky, but if a great scene or dialogue pops into my head I have to write it before it evaporates. By the time I get to that point in the story, though, sometimes what I thought was so wonderful doesn't look that great after all.Jan Blazaninhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01085118289400659555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7486027252802681746.post-8445903422470679222010-06-12T10:26:56.819-05:002010-06-12T10:26:56.819-05:00You know what I'm going to say. :)
I'm tw...You know what I'm going to say. :)<br /><br />I'm twitching, just reading your process. (And yes, it is a process, albeit one that reads in a foreign language to me...)<br /><br />I just finished a scene in the WIP that I've had plotted in my head for over a <i>year</i>. No, I didn't have it written down, not that it would have mattered, because this story has taken so many left turns to Albuquerque, that I would have had to rewrite it anyway, even though the emotional core of the scene has remained constant.<br /><br />So that's what I do, actually-- I hand write notes about the scene, what I want it to accomplish, even some notes about how I see it unfolding (although those are the most changeable, obviously) and then go back to my linear writing while the lizard brain marinates the info I've just fed it.<br /><br />Of course, the problem with finally getting to a scene you've been anticipating for so long is that you then through yourself into a tizzy, worried that you're not doing it justice.<br /><br />Ain't this a FUN process?Barbara Caridad Ferrerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09819588291534894141noreply@blogger.com