I suspect one of the reasons I write linearly is to avoid being left with having to finish by writing the 'boring in-between scenes'. And sex scenes? I write totally gen now. I never did write good sex scenes, and I knew it.
*During the course of a six hour drive to San Francisco and then the six hour drive back to Los Angeles, a friend and I discussed the plot and together we plotted out the entire story.*
:-) Many years ago, my friend Valerie and I spent an evening plotting out a story. We had it fully detailed, but we didn't write anything down. Next morning, neither of us could remember anything - anything at all - about it, apart from the basic idea that had triggered it; Kirk beamed up, stepped off the transporter, and said something totally out of character. We couldn't even remember what he said.
One of the things one can't help noticing in a TV series is plot holes, though that isn't necessarily the fault of the scriptwriter. A scene could have been delated during filming or subsequent editing, to allow for time restrictions including the insertion of special effects. Those plot holes can give a fan writer a lot of scope!
But fan readers are very unforgiving of a plot hole in fanfic where they'll ignore it in a filmed episode.
And I also remember once, in the days before I found fandom... I was writing even then, but it was all original fiction. I was still, as I remember, in my early teens. I was trying to write something on the lines of a locked door mystery, and totally wrote myself into a corner. I either changed one of the parameters of the story or abandoned it. I wrote it off as a learning experience and abandoned it, because changing anything would have killed the entire point of the story. (A group had gone into a cave with only one entrance, and a rockfall blocked that entrance. The story was from the POV of the rescuers, and when they dug through the rockfall... the cave was empty. But there was no way out... and I didn't want to re-dig the cave to give another exit... and in any case if they'd got out there wasn't going to be the need for the rescue attempt...)
*During the course of a six hour drive to San Francisco and then the six hour drive back to Los Angeles, a friend and I discussed the plot and together we plotted out the entire story.*
:-) Many years ago, my friend Valerie and I spent an evening plotting out a story. We had it fully detailed, but we didn't write anything down. Next morning, neither of us could remember anything - anything at all - about it, apart from the basic idea that had triggered it; Kirk beamed up, stepped off the transporter, and said something totally out of character. We couldn't even remember what he said.
One of the things one can't help noticing in a TV series is plot holes, though that isn't necessarily the fault of the scriptwriter. A scene could have been delated during filming or subsequent editing, to allow for time restrictions including the insertion of special effects. Those plot holes can give a fan writer a lot of scope!
But fan readers are very unforgiving of a plot hole in fanfic where they'll ignore it in a filmed episode.
And I also remember once, in the days before I found fandom... I was writing even then, but it was all original fiction. I was still, as I remember, in my early teens. I was trying to write something on the lines of a locked door mystery, and totally wrote myself into a corner. I either changed one of the parameters of the story or abandoned it. I wrote it off as a learning experience and abandoned it, because changing anything would have killed the entire point of the story. (A group had gone into a cave with only one entrance, and a rockfall blocked that entrance. The story was from the POV of the rescuers, and when they dug through the rockfall... the cave was empty. But there was no way out... and I didn't want to re-dig the cave to give another exit... and in any case if they'd got out there wasn't going to be the need for the rescue attempt...)
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