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Post by inkstainedangel on Dec 5, 2007 11:03:20 GMT -5
My writing depends on my characters. Like with art, I focus on the emotional expression the reader will get from them. I live in a large family, and everyone has their own distinct character, which is where I can do alot of observing. Most of the really good writing that I do, is written in first person. This is most likely because I am more into the mind of that character, then if I were to do a third person (I know there is a name for it when writing, but I forgot how to spell it...) point of view.
Like Ri, I can't work under restraints like that, I would almost die. I plan out the ending, which to me is the most important part, so I know what will turn out in the end. I work everything I write towards that ending (most times the ending can change, depending how my characters react).
Alot of people have many different styles of writing. Me and my sister collaborate on many stories (we wrote a book in five days....O.O that's how boring our new neighborhood is) since we were 10 and 12. Our style is so close in similarity it's hard to tell who wrote what. But what I've noticed, is the way my sister writes (her methods) are much, much different then mine. She will literally cross out every other word to replace it with a better one, while I will just let the ink flow from my pen, and hardly stop to change anything.
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Post by neb92 on Dec 24, 2007 21:02:26 GMT -5
When I come up with a new idea, it's mostly just an emotion that I form into a picture in my head. I think in words and pictures, that may or may not have 'sound' with them. So I take this picture, and I think, 'what is going on at this moment?' Then I plan it out in my head. Then I take what I've planned out, and I ask, 'What happened to get me to this?' and plan that out. If I have to go farther back than that, I keep up the process until I get to the first chapter.
When I finally get all the way back, I start to think, 'So what happens after this?' and plan that out until I reach the end. I always have several different ideas in the back of my mind and as I plan things out, I switch back and forth and steal ideas from one scene to another until I can get it just right.
It can take me months to get this done, (it took me a four months to even start considering writing Adopted), and then I start writing. Also, I'm forever changing things, so I really can't do an outline, because I'd be back scratching something out and scribbling something else in it's place.
Like right now. I have a Harry Potter fic planned that will cover the entire fifth year, from the middle of the summer hols until after school gets out. I have about 8 pages typed up of the first chapter that is over 3000 words. It took me over three months of planning to even get back to the beginning so that I could start typing. I have Christmas and the Department of Mysteries completely planned out in my head; I could type those chapters out right now, but I Know that I'd end up completely changing it by the time I get to those individual scenes because of the scenes that I'd written after it that actually happen before.
My writing strategy is weird because I plan out the main events and work from there, starting at the one I have most developed and then I start writing the little details that add a little to the plot and the filler details that do absolutely nothing for the story except get us to the next scene.
Also, I don't think I could do first person. I plan out my stories by the emotions they feel at first, but embodying myself in them isn't easy. I'm an actor, (competition theater next year dude! ^.^), but I'm not that good yet. I write in third person limited because I can switch POV's without having to actually feel the character while I'm writing.
Honestly, the first (and only) time I tried to write in 1st I burst into tears because I was acting it out in my head instead of typing lol.
Neb
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Post by I.M.Bored on Jan 10, 2008 20:38:19 GMT -5
Great post!
I was stuck for a while fixing all of the holes in the story I'm putting on paper and then I decided to start over (with the same basic idea of course) after reading Ingermanson's articles.
Then I realized I've been doing it Ingermanson's way (well, sort of), the whole time in technical writing.
I'd do an experiment, and along the way I would note everything that happened from what I put in, for how long, my results(backed up by hard evidence, of course). So that when I'd have to put my stuff down in writing, everything is already there. I only have to put everything together in a bunch of paragraphs.
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