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How do YOU plan your stories?
teamlash:
So I apologise if this is a repeat thread, and/or is in the wrong place.
Yesterday I used Jims' blog to begin planning a book I've wanted to write for years, and his method is like gold dust!
However I do know that there are a hundred ways to write a book, so I wondered which method everybody used :)
Kali:
*blink* Plan?
If I do, I tend to do it the day before. I write for the day, however much I wanted to write, then I stop. Then whenever I have time (in the shower, before bed, at redlights), I daydream about the story. I find a scene that I really want to write, something cool or interesting or heartfelt. I replay the scene in different ways over and over, and then the next day I'm completely psyched to write it.
That's about as close as I get to planning.
trboturtle:
--- Quote from: Kali on July 22, 2011, 03:13:55 PM ---*blink* Plan?
If I do, I tend to do it the day before. I write for the day, however much I wanted to write, then I stop. Then whenever I have time (in the shower, before bed, at redlights), I daydream about the story. I find a scene that I really want to write, something cool or interesting or heartfelt. I replay the scene in different ways over and over, and then the next day I'm completely psyched to write it.
That's about as close as I get to planning.
--- End quote ---
Me too -- I start with an idea and keep whacking away at it until it done.... :)
Craig
teamlash:
Oh gosh, I wish I could do that!
My brain is about as disorganised as Harrys' lab though, so I have to have an outline.
How do you hold everything together in your head? :)
Dresdenus Prime:
I also used Jims blog to start my story. Most of the time I am just mentally brainstorming away, and I keep a notepad close by. Sometimes the ideas I get are really cool I never forget them, but others that just sort of pop up out of nowhere I write down on the notepad in no particular order.
If you have the beginning on your book then just start typing away. Otherwise just keep taking notes and brainstorming until you feel you have enough of a story skeleton to start writing, and fill in the details later.
I personally use a writing program, which isn't necessary, but it was fairly cheap and it allows me to seperate my chapters and scenes, and has character sheets and notepads and more. It's really helped me organize.
Usually I don't like to write inconsistantly, that is to say write chapter 1 then go to chapter 10 because I know what happens there. I broke that rule a week ago but I had a huge inspiration, plus I was stuck on the next chapter anyways.
Long story short everyone is going to have different ways of doing things. I like to at least have a beginning middle and end before I start writing.
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