Heh. I can't write that way. If I don't go back and edit stuff (sometimes repeatedly) the fridge logic just sort of piles up until it crushes the story under its weight and I give up on it and start all over. If I want to stick with a story until it's finished I need to edit it as I go.
I think Fleming's approach might work best for people who know how their story ends, and have the general plot structure in mind before they begin. Otherwise I can't imagine sorting out the dead-ends a body would write oneself into. It happens that I do this (know the plot structure, ending, etc) before I begin (unless I get really surprised along the way), so his method works for me.
More than that, though, I think he's very smart about things like "make a vacuum" that creativity can fill, and so on. Writing is about more than words on paper. It's about how you make space in your life and in your psychology to get those words on paper.
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It does make writing REALLY REALLY SLOW though.
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More than that, though, I think he's very smart about things like "make a vacuum" that creativity can fill, and so on. Writing is about more than words on paper. It's about how you make space in your life and in your psychology to get those words on paper.
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