Scribbles and bits

[dawnebeth]

Do those of you who write use an outline or just set out with half a plot in mind? I'm the latter--always have been. Can't organize a story ahead of time to save my life. I usually know the beginning, and vaguely where we are headed with some idea of how it will end. Then, as I write, scenes and dialogue sort of slot themselves in appropriately

Comments

[sc_fossil]

You had me at "pierced".

[dawnebeth]

grins. You're so easy.

[ali15son]

Well that's it now I can't wait to read this story damn how much longer is there yet .. arrgh !!!!

[dawnebeth]

lol--Hey, it's not even finished yet, I'm not sure what will happen at the end. You'll have to wait until October (I think?)

[quoshara]

I'm definitely a ' have a vague idea of a plot then jump right in' type. I prefer this way so that when my stubborn fictives decide they want to do something completely different from what I had planned I can roll with the flow. *L*

And, yeah, they do this so often that I regularly feel like I'm on merry-go-round.

[dawnebeth]

I'm always quite in awe of people who know how the whole story will be before they begin. But that also seems very orderly and planned, and I like the freedom to let the story meander! lol.

[callistosh65]

Heh. Love how inspiration hits us sometimes! I'm like you. I tend to start with vague bits and pieces of where my story will go/end in my head and just go with it.

Sometimes I do have really clear chunks in my head, line for line - especially for dialogue. And yes, like you, unless I get them down really fast, I forget them.

[dawnebeth]

We're so sympatico! heehee.

[hardboiledbaby]

I get... glimmers. Snatches of dialogue, bits of narrative. I capture them right away (or repeat them frantically in my head until I can write them down, or sure as shootin' it's GONE). Sometimes the fragments suggest a plot, or a bunny appears out of the darkness later and claims them. Then the muse has to actually work :)

I suspect, though, that if I ever write anything of length, I'll have to do structure a little more.

[dawnebeth]

I simply write in order, from beginning to end so the muse follows the story and each scene builds on the next. That's why I knew what B&D were discussing was near the end, but it's so difficult when I can't find what attaches one scene to the next!