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thausgt:

--- Quote from: belial.1980 on August 07, 2009, 12:06:14 AM ---Meg and Starbeam turned me on to the following podcast: http://www.writingexcuses.com/ (Thank you guys!)

It's full of good advice. And it's pretty entertaining too. Three guys who're relatively new authors give advice in 15 minute episodes to aspiring writers. You should check it out.

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Seconded! I recommend going through the archives of all the old episodes and, if you happen to have the hard-drive space, the bandwidth and the patience, download as many episodes as you can. Every one of them has at least something you can use, even if it's just the writing prompts.

In response to your overall question, you seem to be what the "Writing Excuses" crew call a "discovery writer". This means that your writing style is to essentially take dictation from your muse, rather like how Mozart used to hear entire symphonies in his head. In light of that, you might consider just letting your writing go where it will. Be advised that you will end up with sentences, characters, scenes, and even entire chapters that you may or may not be able to use in the story you intend to submit for publication, but that doesn't mean that you should banish such fragments completely. Keep them in your writing files, for when your muse gets around to giving you the stories into which they fit better.

Good luck!

EmmettSpain:
Hey Ducky! As I'm sure you're getting from this, everyone is different in the way they do things.... I tend to start with the most exciting or interesting image, or the strongest point I'm trying to make... basically what excites me about writing, and what I really want to get to. I keep a basic road map of what I want to do with the story, but if it's getting the ball rolling that's the issue, I reckon it's fun to start with a bold introduction... after all, the first couple of pages are what usually make up people's minds one way or the other if they're going to read on. Go in hard, grab people's attentions, then settle in to flesh out your characters and the universe you're trying to create...

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