I'm really impressed you can write out of sequence. I can't. I did it once and I was screwed when it came to writing the intervening chapters -- they were like Chinese water torture. I think it's because I knew what happened next and I thought having to go back to write the journey between was dead boring.
I have other friends who write out of sequence all the time and it works for them. I, on the other hand, hold those mental images of future chapters in my mind like a carrot dangling before the horse. They give me tons of incentive.
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Hi, by the way. I realize that I've never commented on your journal before. I hope you don't mind.
I get woefully behind on the whole friending thing, I'm afraid, so my apologies for not having done so sooner.
I am indeed talking about Summoning. I have three or four scenes pretty clearly in my head that I'm holding off until I write them, and one of them is the denouement ... which isn't to say it's the last scene ... because there will be two or three chapters following that one. Whew, it is coming to the end though ... probably ten more posts and I'm done. I can hardly wait
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Wow. It's strange to think you're that close to finishing Summoning. It's been an immense pleasure, by the way, to both read and reread the epic. And to "converse" with you through the reviews for it. :)
Yes, notebooks are my friend, too. I have a drawer filled with story outlines, research (a lot of which I haven't used for anything yet), and various prompts/ideas/etc. I think the only reason I started writing the chapters out of sequence was becuase I didn't have the idea that I wanted to write so much as I had the WORDS that I wanted to use. So, I just started free-styling the words to see where they went. It will have to be tweaked regardless, because I am in total agreement that Rowling's epilogue trapped her.
I can hardly wait to be finished with it. I'm probably going to do a disappearing act for a month or so while I write the end. I, too, have really enjoyed chatting with you about it ... although the conversation was a little truncated on a couple of occasions. You're one of the reasons I quite contentedly think I have the most eloquent and erudite readership in the entire fandom
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I've read through some of the other reviews in Summoning, and the comments all seem very insightful. I especially appreciate your story (and your writing in general) because it awakens all my lit crit training. :) ...Particularly the half-semester I spent studying eco-feminist criticism, because it adds that extra layer to all the nature imagery and themes you have playing out. I'm such a dork
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I've taken a couple of courses in matristic societies and the patriarchies which have sublimated them. I do think the pendulum will swing back in their direction after a time, and I also think that what I've learned has been quite influential in several of my stories. They're practice for my original trilogy (in the early planning stages.)
I love, love, love the shower for brainstorming. It's private, it's soothing and I think it's secure so that more of our subconscious brain is freed up to wander at will.
I quite agree with you about Rowling's epilogue. She grew as a writer, and her characters developed, but the epilogue matched her earliest efforts which was jarring when juxtaposed with her seventh book.
I have other friends who write out of sequence all the time and it works for them. I, on the other hand, hold those mental images of future chapters in my mind like a carrot dangling before the horse. They give me tons of incentive.
Oh.
Hi, by the way. I realize that I've never commented on your journal before. I hope you don't mind.
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I am indeed talking about Summoning. I have three or four scenes pretty clearly in my head that I'm holding off until I write them, and one of them is the denouement ... which isn't to say it's the last scene ... because there will be two or three chapters following that one. Whew, it is coming to the end though ... probably ten more posts and I'm done. I can hardly wait ( ... )
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Yes, notebooks are my friend, too. I have a drawer filled with story outlines, research (a lot of which I haven't used for anything yet), and various prompts/ideas/etc. I think the only reason I started writing the chapters out of sequence was becuase I didn't have the idea that I wanted to write so much as I had the WORDS that I wanted to use. So, I just started free-styling the words to see where they went. It will have to be tweaked regardless, because I am in total agreement that Rowling's epilogue trapped her.
Sweet dreams! ;)
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I love, love, love the shower for brainstorming. It's private, it's soothing and I think it's secure so that more of our subconscious brain is freed up to wander at will.
I quite agree with you about Rowling's epilogue. She grew as a writer, and her characters developed, but the epilogue matched her earliest efforts which was jarring when juxtaposed with her seventh book.
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