Fits and Starts

[Stella_Omega]

SO, I had an idea for a story, it turns me on quite some. I write the first three or four pages quickly, in one sitting, but have to go do other things- and when I come back, it's hard to remember what I wanted to happen.

Now, my "quickie" story has taken a week to get halfway, and I'm picking my way delicately, spending so much more time and thought on it than I ever wanted to...

Oh, well.

 

[English Lady]

that happens to me too, damn life getting in the way of my writing! Its osmetimes really hard to get back into the feel of a piece once you've left it a while.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

In A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway said he always tried to stop writing at a spot where he knew exactly what was going to happen next. Most of us, me included, do the exact opposite and stop writing at the end of a scene or chapter.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Stella_Omega]

I usually stop writing just after someone comes... because... well, you know and then it's hard to pick up the thread again.


Author; I came, who cares about you?
Character; But- You said I get to have multiple orgasms!
Author; Yes, but my fingers are tired...
Character; Well, untie me then, okay?
Author; Later, dude, later...
Character; *sob* An evil god, you are!

 

[logophile]

I mapped out my entire novel, and now I just have to connect the dots with prose.
But has that helped me?

Not yet.
I'll report back.

 

[Belegon]

I mapped out my entire novel, and now I just have to connect the dots with prose.
But has that helped me?

Not yet.
I'll report back.

first time I have ever tried to do this is right now...we will see how it goes...

 

[Stella_Omega]

I got four or five paras written today, including a sweet little byplay between the young man and an ancient hag- "I knew yer father" she tells him, and he says "And will you lift a glass to my father for me?" And gives her a shilling. "Ah, yer every bit the gent he was, young'n!" the old bitch cackles, and makes off to the nearest pub.
It's so sweet! made me pretty happy!

 

[CharleyH]

SO, I had an idea for a story, it turns me on quite some. I write the first three or four pages quickly, in one sitting, but have to go do other things- and when I come back, it's hard to remember what I wanted to happen.

Now, my "quickie" story has taken a week to get halfway, and I'm picking my way delicately, spending so much more time and thought on it than I ever wanted to...

Oh, well.

If you had have written that day, would it be quite as good a finish as how you WILL write it?

 

[Stella_Omega]

If you had have written that day, would it be quite as good a finish as how you WILL write it?

NO, it wouldn't have been.
Old Josie wouldn't have been in it, with her intimations of youth fleeting, fo rone thing. And that kindly gesture of young Jackie's would never have seen the light of day.
But- it would have been finished in time for the "talk like a pirate" day, avast and damn! It was only meant to be a nice, vanilla stroke piece.
It is still- vanilla. Possibly the only vanilla story I've ever written...
now, that's interesting.