Oh, that's cool. And it sounds about write for me.
I've actually gotten caught by #1, because I don't outline. I do have a scraps/note file, though, and that helps me to catch some things. Sometimes.
When I'm writing, because I don't write linearly, my writing files look something like this:
Beginning, set up, PoV begins and something is happening.
Of late, that's porn.
//This indicates a break in the scene, where either more stuff will go, or I'll eventually break the scene completely.
The rest of the scene, or bits of it.
* * *
//A scene that I'll fill in later, depending on whether it actually needs it. In a story with split PoV (typically alternating), this is where the next PoV will be, but maybe I want to skip ahead in time and stay in Clark's/Lex's head space.
* * *
So the next scene picks up here.
And now, having written that out... maybe I outline as I go a bit more than I thought, but it's never a separate outline. It's just notes in the story file itself. "//" means "Come back to here and flesh this out, clean this up, or add the scene you didn't write earlier."
It would be more accurate to say that I don't create a separate outline, or at least that I have not done so successfully to date.
I think with my fingers (and I talk with my hands). To me, an idea is better... seen, better realized (? I'm missing the word I want, sorry), when I'm writing it. It's something of a joke with the wife and I that I like to quote, "Get it written, and then get it right", but it's honestly how I write the majority of the time.
In longer stories, and in rewrites of longer stories, I'll do an outline -after- the first draft is done. Or at least I've started them. But that generally lasts for a few scenes are a couple chapters, and then is pushed aside (again) to just play with the words of the story themselves.
I used to want to outline. I'd heard it mentioned often enough that I thought it should be something I was doing. And perhaps in the future, if I find a method that works for me, it will be amazing.
I've actually gotten caught by #1, because I don't outline. I do have a scraps/note file, though, and that helps me to catch some things. Sometimes.
When I'm writing, because I don't write linearly, my writing files look something like this:
Beginning, set up, PoV begins and something is happening.
Of late, that's porn.
//This indicates a break in the scene, where either more stuff will go, or I'll eventually break the scene completely.
The rest of the scene, or bits of it.
* * *
//A scene that I'll fill in later, depending on whether it actually needs it. In a story with split PoV (typically alternating), this is where the next PoV will be, but maybe I want to skip ahead in time and stay in Clark's/Lex's head space.
* * *
So the next scene picks up here.
And now, having written that out... maybe I outline as I go a bit more than I thought, but it's never a separate outline. It's just notes in the story file itself. "//" means "Come back to here and flesh this out, clean this up, or add the scene you didn't write earlier."
It would be more accurate to say that I don't create a separate outline, or at least that I have not done so successfully to date.
I think with my fingers (and I talk with my hands). To me, an idea is better... seen, better realized (? I'm missing the word I want, sorry), when I'm writing it. It's something of a joke with the wife and I that I like to quote, "Get it written, and then get it right", but it's honestly how I write the majority of the time.
In longer stories, and in rewrites of longer stories, I'll do an outline -after- the first draft is done. Or at least I've started them. But that generally lasts for a few scenes are a couple chapters, and then is pushed aside (again) to just play with the words of the story themselves.
I used to want to outline. I'd heard it mentioned often enough that I thought it should be something I was doing. And perhaps in the future, if I find a method that works for me, it will be amazing.
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