Aug
21st
Patience is a damn difficult virtue!
By Liss
Right,
when it comes to a new idea I pretend to plan it out on a timeline
with nice organised chapter-based word counts and that I know
exactly what I'm going to do - when in reality I haven't the
foggiest.
It's terrible writing etiquette to just badger away without any plans for the future, but I can't help it. One big problem that comes with doing this though, is keeping any shiny new ideas you have under wraps, until you find the right place for them.
If you have a basic plotline and characters etc, and then whilst writing come up with a dazzling subplot, like the one character has a secret illegitimate lovelchild or someone else is gay, then the problem occurs.
If you had a full 90,000 words and suddenly thought of this dazzling sub-plot at the end, you could easily weave it in wherever it suits you.
HOWEVER, if you're only 9,000 words in and you come up with a dazzling SP, it is so difficult to hold on to it until you have a proper word count, because you know it wouldn't really fit in right now, but you can't wait until the right time for it to slot in.
Writing it in a seperate document is all good and well, but then continuing with the main body of the story would mean having to add it in later, also meaning you have to alter the majority of it to fit in.
Anyone who wants to write a book is a nutter.
It's terrible writing etiquette to just badger away without any plans for the future, but I can't help it. One big problem that comes with doing this though, is keeping any shiny new ideas you have under wraps, until you find the right place for them.
If you have a basic plotline and characters etc, and then whilst writing come up with a dazzling subplot, like the one character has a secret illegitimate lovelchild or someone else is gay, then the problem occurs.
If you had a full 90,000 words and suddenly thought of this dazzling sub-plot at the end, you could easily weave it in wherever it suits you.
HOWEVER, if you're only 9,000 words in and you come up with a dazzling SP, it is so difficult to hold on to it until you have a proper word count, because you know it wouldn't really fit in right now, but you can't wait until the right time for it to slot in.
Writing it in a seperate document is all good and well, but then continuing with the main body of the story would mean having to add it in later, also meaning you have to alter the majority of it to fit in.
Anyone who wants to write a book is a nutter.
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