Writing methods: plotting ?
Apr. 12th, 2015 05:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sealieA question: detailed outlines versus making it up as you go along?
I’m totally the latter.
If I had a detailed outline, I wouldn't need to write the fic, cos there would be nothing to explore. The story's in my head, but if I dwell on it in its entirety, I wouldn't write it. I've never written down outlines/skeletons. I have brief notes/collections of lines/'remember this, doofus!'. There are some really distinct 3D scenes that I look forward to writing e.g. Evolution Wins
I liken it to I know the destination, but the route is... kinda... that way, probably. And that's the way that we're going, and the DESTINATION is there.
Oh, and we need a spaceship?!?
I've had lots of fic in my head that blossomed in their entirety. There was supernatural/highlander crossover that was about people in one the supernatural little townships who were incredibly long lived because they had captured an immortal and had basically tapped and drank his blood. The immortals that they harvested didn't last forever because they believed eating brains was also important -- brain feast for the win, so they always had an eye out for another immortal. Methos came to the town to investigate Duncan's disappearance. Same time as Dean and Sam popped by. The villagers were, of course, going insane à la the Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. Sam and Dead think that Methos is a hunter, and he's like oh fuck, hunters, but hey I'm going to have some fun with this -- and they can do all the legwork.
good fic -- haven't written a word of it. Don't need to.
I’m totally the latter.
If I had a detailed outline, I wouldn't need to write the fic, cos there would be nothing to explore. The story's in my head, but if I dwell on it in its entirety, I wouldn't write it. I've never written down outlines/skeletons. I have brief notes/collections of lines/'remember this, doofus!'. There are some really distinct 3D scenes that I look forward to writing e.g. Evolution Wins
I liken it to I know the destination, but the route is... kinda... that way, probably. And that's the way that we're going, and the DESTINATION is there.
Oh, and we need a spaceship?!?
I've had lots of fic in my head that blossomed in their entirety. There was supernatural/highlander crossover that was about people in one the supernatural little townships who were incredibly long lived because they had captured an immortal and had basically tapped and drank his blood. The immortals that they harvested didn't last forever because they believed eating brains was also important -- brain feast for the win, so they always had an eye out for another immortal. Methos came to the town to investigate Duncan's disappearance. Same time as Dean and Sam popped by. The villagers were, of course, going insane à la the Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. Sam and Dead think that Methos is a hunter, and he's like oh fuck, hunters, but hey I'm going to have some fun with this -- and they can do all the legwork.
good fic -- haven't written a word of it. Don't need to.
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Date: 2015-04-12 05:50 pm (UTC)I need an outline. I need a beginning and an end, or else the story never makes it to my keyboard. But often, the middle is somewhat fuzzy, the outline is filled with chunks of notes that say something like: something cool happens here
That's one reason why it takes me forever to get something written and done....
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Date: 2015-04-12 06:45 pm (UTC)SO I guess, I'm in your middle, so to speak.
I remember write Somnus and that really didn't follow the vague destination where I thought I was going. I had numerous scenes in my head where I figured Carson and Rodney were going to end up. They never went there. that was so weird....No tornado. No running through the long grass.