WEEKLY CHECK-IN: Tickety boxes and a couple of questions

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

[Poll #1824744]

Now that you've started hyperventilating thinking about your story, are any particular songs coming to mind, like "Please release me (Let me go)" or "A Whumping hunting we will go?"

Any particular writing/vidding/drawing survival must-haves at your house? I have to drink pots and pots of tea (probably explains why I always have the lads consuming copious amounts) and my mate Cherry has to listen to the Bee Gees... don't ask.

Or, if none of this foolishness appeals to you, feel free to just check-in and let us know how it's going.
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Comments

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear about the hospital and hope you make a swift recovery.

I suspect there may be a lot of us who do things this way, pretty much have it drafted out in our heads before we start... well, I do it mostly that way but then there are always surprises that creep in once I start typing or do you really have it *completely* worked out?

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

Well, I plan in my head and then there are always surprises as I go into the first draft, but that's still in my head. Once I start typing, which I think of as second draft, there are usually only odds and ends that crop up unexpectedly, like bits of dialogue. This is a bit of a generalisation; occasionally things change even at third draft. But I don't start typing until I at least think it's all worked out!

[draycevixen.livejournal.com]

That's pretty close to how it works for me. I'm fascinated by how people can produce great stories where they just started typing with a single scene in their head but it doesn't work that way for me. Even with the shortest of stories I have a beginning, middle and end in my head before I start.

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

Not only that. Some people write bits from all over the place in their story and still pull it all together into something coherent. However, I'm glad I'm not alone! *g*

[margaret-r.livejournal.com]

Oh, I can usually have a vague beginning, middle and end in mind when I start to write - I know what I want to write and what's going to happen - but having the whole thing written in your head and all ready to type out is incomprehensible to me, hence the gross unfairness of it all as I spend months writing and re-writing:P *g*

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

It's quite hard to explain. Quite often there are huge chunks of text which just literally need typing. That's more usual for non-fiction of all kinds, including this reply. More frequently for stories there is a kind of film - like an 'episode' - that I can play and replay in my head and then describe when I type. Plans tend to be silent movies and dialogue is added in the first (in-head)draft. Once I'm typing I might tweak vocabulary or sentence structure but the story flows. I can only say that the internal work is quite hard - it's just that it doesn't have to be done at a keyboard or with a notebook.