Hmm... Interesting Thing Just Happened to me (Creatively).

[ashteth]

i was writing the backstory for a character in an AU fic and i, all of a sudden, realised that a previous piece of dialogue i'd written no longer suited this character.

So i changed a large amount of a previous section (and after i'd done that i realised that the dialogue of A had obviously belonged to B all along) and all was well.

Buti've never

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twentieth of the twelfth ought-six? y'WHAT?

[episkopos]

Growing as a writer. Revision is always a sign that you're growing as a writer, doubly so if it's done before releasing the story into the wild. Whether or not you're worried about growing as a writer is your lookout, but it sounds a strange and foolish thing to worry about to me.

This sort of thing has happened to me so often in the past that I've started to set up a safety net of profiles and prewriting to make sure I've got these people (and plots... especially plots, we do NOT want to go through the "volume one's finished and now I have no idea what's going to go in volume two" process again) down pat before anyone actually reads the thing. I think I caught that off you.

Re: twentieth of the twelfth ought-six? y'WHAT?

[ashteth]

AAHH! STALKER!

(Yeah, i'm trying to write up on lj all the entries i've got written on envelopes and receipts and things - in a mad attempt at housekeeping. So watch out for significant use of the backdate button.)

i didn't say i was worried about growing as a writer, i was worried about going crazyier. *snicker*

Hmm... i think what catches me out is that the story generally starts life as a really clear scene between two characters (always two, seriously i have really trouble with multiple characters in scenes - it ends up with lots of people standing around being wery wery qwiet.) in the middle of the story.

The Muse just dumps me there, and i have to stumble my way around the rest of the plot/characterisation/etc. from there.

Heh, plot... we don't talk about plot round here... *mutters*

Re: twentieth of the twelfth ought-six? y'WHAT?

[episkopos]

If I'm a stalker, I'm a terrible one; I keep going to bed/the pub/somewhere where the Internet isn't half an hour before you post. So... yeah, no fear. Any actual stalkage that occurs is pure co-incidence. Honest.

Say no more.

Ahh, right. Mea culpa.

The Muse is a fucking sadist. That "no, you can't have the beginning, or the end, you can have this misc. scene from the middle" thing happens to me all the time.