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How do YOU plan your stories?
Mishell:
I am horrible at finding things on big sites like this - can someone point me to the blog mentioned in the first post?
As for my plan, I've adapted it from the various screenwriting books/seminars that I have been to. I have five major "turning points" in the story and know at around what word count they should appear. The rest I've been planning on a very basic level day-to-day by looking at the larger structure, looking at where I am in the word count, and writing what seems the most urgent thing that needs to happen en route to the next turning point.
Haru:
--- Quote from: Mishell on August 19, 2011, 09:07:01 PM ---I am horrible at finding things on big sites like this - can someone point me to the blog mentioned in the first post?
--- End quote ---
This is it:
http://jimbutcher.livejournal.com/
Aminar:
Since I started writing about 9 months ago I've found that planning too much doesn't work for me. I tend to write a scene and as I go the next part of the story follows a logical path. I know the ending I want, and how to get there, but I just recently decided to add a whole new POV character because it fit and let me play more with the world than I could before.
Snowleopard:
I get an idea and usually where I want the story to end up.
And then I start writing. I can get tripped up because I don't have my middle fully laid out.
I often have just incidents that I want to incorporate in the middle but not how they need to be strung together.
ragnrok:
I try planning, but it rarely works out. For the most part I just wing it and then come back and do necessary revisions every month or so.
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