George R. R. Martin quotes on writing

[kudagirl]

I ran across this and one point caught my eye.

Two kinds of writers:

I've always said there are - to oversimplify it - two kinds of writers. There are architects
and gardeners. The architects do blueprints before they drive the first nail, they design
the entire house, where the pipes are running, and how many rooms there are going to
be, how

Comments

[slaymesoftly]

I like that analogy. I think I'm a gardener. :) But I admire architects. I wish I could be that organized and thoughtful. I'd have fewer plot holes to plug when I reread things. :)

[kudagirl]

My whole life is being produced by a gardener I think. I bumble around with no plans. LOL!

I would love to be an architect type and have things sorted out. Never going to happen to me. Life throws me and I have to shift around the roadblocks. My writing is very much like my life. It happens in spurts.

[murielle]

I'm a gardener and a pretty haphazard one at that. Tried the other way once or twice, it just doesn't work for me.

[kudagirl]

Sometimes I have an idea of where I'm going, but often it takes a life of it's own. Often it turns it's self completely around and even becomes a different idea.

[edenskye]

A new perspective on writing.

I never looked at it this way but I am a gardner. I tend to just start and let the characters take me along for the ride.

[kudagirl]

Doing an outline never got me where the story ended up. The characters take over and go where they want to go.