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Doroga's Cousin:

--- Quote from: Kali on October 11, 2010, 12:47:16 AM ---Well, I imagine the question is "I want to write a cogent, compelling book that intrigues an audience and hooks them. What's the best way to start out?" ;) 

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1) Blow something up.
2) Make it a love story.
I've actually written a chapter already, but it's pretty cheesy with the whole love story idea.

prophet224:
Hey Breandan! If your way is crazy, then I'm crazy too. I find that writing out all the scenes in my head helps me keep the 'fire'. Those "tying together" scenes later are really tough though. But I keep finding that I learn so much about the story and the characters by writing out the scenes that I am imagining, so much of the rest of the story gets filled in on the way. Basically writing some scenes makes me think about a new set of scenes. :D

Breandan:
true, and thankfully I have a designated beta reader to go through and look for continuity issues and editing to help keep me on track :D

prophet224:
Yeah... continuity issues... about that... <whistle>

That is definitely one of the potential hazards in this style of writing.  :D

Starbeam:
This is where I say that's one of the awesome things with Scrivener---you don't have to write linearly.  You can write it however you want, and then go back and move it around to fit right.

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