Writing

I start exactly where I left off in sequence. I might get a post-thought and high tail it back to check or rewrite or expand upon something, but nothing more.

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That is how I write. Of the two novels and three stories that I am writing, only one Novel is getting worked on in three areas (the back story, main story, and interlude).

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FOr the most part I go in sequence, but sometimes a particular scene just wont wait and insists on being written then and there. I have been known to write a scene and then build it into the storyline, or in the case of my current project, wrote the scene and then went back and outlined around it.

Yeah I am weird, I do that in the rest of my life too. I once decorated an entire room based on the color of a scarf.

I am writing completely out of sequence. I'm definitely not doing it on purpose, but that's just how it's happening. I'm trying a go with the flow approach, so I've been writing whatever I'm most motivated to write at that moment. Unfortunately, that means I now have part of the beginning, a few bits from just before the end, and then also a random chapter that doesn't really have anything to do with my original plan, but I'm keeping it because I don't want to lose the words.

I do in sequence mostly - just easier that way for what I'm doing at the moment.

Both. I mostly write in sequence but I have a few scenes from later in the novel that demanded to be written, so I wrote them.

Prior to this I have always written in sequence, largely because I let the tension build in my brain as I go, and I find that it comes out a lot more forcefully during climactic moments. (It also means that I'm a raving lunatic until I write those moments.)

But with this Nano, I'm just writing whatever comes to me, and putting it in something resembling an order in one large document. It was freaking me out at first, but now I'm starting to like it. It's easier to go back and fill in some stuff that I wasn't sure about before. So, instead of writing A, B, C, D, E, I'm writing A, B, C...um...E, F...hey, NOW I know what to do with D...and then I can move on to G.

I'm just trying to relax and let word count be my goal. This is the first time I've written this way, and I can say that so far, I still like the results of the linear method better. But this has it's advantages, for sure. :)

I have two files, one is the sequential novel, one is called "Excerpts" and just has random scenes from the book. It's 12 pages long, I think - significantly longer than the sequence part.

Basically I'll be going along in my normal life and suddenly my characters will stroll into my mind with little or no invitation to take the stage and they'll act out a very real segment of the story. So I write it down.

That's how I normally write, but the strange thing is that this time everything is sticking to a linear timeline. Every time I write a new segment, I - more or less - know where it goes.

I really like it =)

[ And! The other day I connected two segments up into one and expanded on them besides. It was a beautiful thing. ]

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