I've always been a pantser and not a plotter. Eventually, I sometimes dabble with an outline once I start to rewrite. No one, ever, has made me reconsider my commitment to making it up as I go along, until this. I'm so impressed by your speed that I'm seriously considering trying an outline. (Admittedly, I just did an extremely thorough proposal for a work-for-hire fiction gig, which was marginally similar--but watching you rack up these numbers is just beautiful.)
I've always been a pantser before too. I have to be honest and say: although I've always been able to write in fairly fast spurts... I've never done anything like this before. It's very strange to write like this, but the only reasons I've been stopping is because of tiredness - not because I don't have anything in my head waiting to be put down on paper. If pantsing doesn't work consistently, I'd so suggest this to everyone. When I have time for a longer blog post, I'll probably list my process... if I don't, I'll forget it lol. Hoping to write all day Saturday and Sunday. It's getting so close now, I can almost taste it.
Good luck on your proposal ^_^ I'll cross my fingers for you!
Nothing wrong with being marginally insane. At this rate, another week or less. You can do it!
One bit of advice I read somewhere, man years ago, before I started paying attention to where I picked up these little tidbits, recommended stopping mid-scene, or when you know what you'll write when you go back, to provide the impetus for writing when you next sit down to the keyboard. So no need to write about nightmares before you go to sleep. Leave that for daytime, where you can write it in daylight and then move on to the next part and write it so that you have something besides the nightmare scene to think about when you go to sleep. :3
Actually once I finish this, I have to leave it for a week or two. Can't re-read it so fresh. But while I do that I'll outline and plan out the next book :D Never a dull moment ;)
And I've heard that before. With this process I don't need it so much. I can pick up half way through a sentence, at the end of a scene, on a blank page of a new chapter... Maybe it's just this story... but it's working.
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I've always been a pantser before too. I have to be honest and say: although I've always been able to write in fairly fast spurts... I've never done anything like this before.
It's very strange to write like this, but the only reasons I've been stopping is because of tiredness - not because I don't have anything in my head waiting to be put down on paper. If pantsing doesn't work consistently, I'd so suggest this to everyone. When I have time for a longer blog post, I'll probably list my process... if I don't, I'll forget it lol.
Hoping to write all day Saturday and Sunday. It's getting so close now, I can almost taste it.
Good luck on your proposal ^_^ I'll cross my fingers for you!
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One bit of advice I read somewhere, man years ago, before I started paying attention to where I picked up these little tidbits, recommended stopping mid-scene, or when you know what you'll write when you go back, to provide the impetus for writing when you next sit down to the keyboard. So no need to write about nightmares before you go to sleep. Leave that for daytime, where you can write it in daylight and then move on to the next part and write it so that you have something besides the nightmare scene to think about when you go to sleep. :3
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Actually once I finish this, I have to leave it for a week or two. Can't re-read it so fresh. But while I do that I'll outline and plan out the next book :D Never a dull moment ;)
And I've heard that before. With this process I don't need it so much. I can pick up half way through a sentence, at the end of a scene, on a blank page of a new chapter... Maybe it's just this story... but it's working.
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