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How do YOU plan your stories?
meg_evonne:
Recent writer workshop weekend:
John Irving begins with a 'crystalizing scene', which is the huge ah ha ending. I found it amusing to hear JB say ghost story was hard because he didn't have that, these are John Irvings words, crystalizing final climax. I'd guess that if I had that super incredible image in your head as my final goal post then I could wing it. Someone on these boards years ago said the same thing and they shared one. Pretty incredible final scene. I still remember it and wonder if the author finished it. Won't share the specifics, but it involved a one legged woman and a shotgun. :-) see? You are drawn to it already, right?
Nickeris86:
this will sound weird but i act out scenes of my stories when i am alone, usually in the car on my way to work. i also jot down my insane thoughts in my note books, each story has their own individual journal.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
I usually start with a couple of scenes that do that crystallising thing, but they're not always climactic - the structural pins for me writing the thing, as it were, can often be small asides in the middle of a but where the plot is doing something completely different, though they do generally tend to also include major hinge points in the plot.
comprex:
--- Quote from: Nickeris86 on July 30, 2011, 04:40:57 PM ---this will sound weird but i act out scenes of my stories when i am alone, usually in the car on my way to work. i also jot down my insane thoughts in my note books, each story has their own individual journal.
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*Imagines evil cackling scramble to find the notebook where -exactly- that idea was written*
Hold on
It's here somewhere
I wrote that only the week before last
I know I have it
Yeah, I know the conversation is past it but AHA! here it is!
Well, OK, not quite exactly that idea, but if you squint just right... ;D
meg_evonne:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on July 30, 2011, 05:34:09 PM ---I usually start with a couple of scenes that do that crystallising thing, but they're not always climactic - the structural pins for me writing the thing, as it were, can often be small asides in the middle of a but where the plot is doing something completely different, though they do generally tend to also include major hinge points in the plot.
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Longest sentence so far in author craft, I suspect. And yes, it is clear as to your meaning. Hugs!
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