Writerly Ways

[cornerofmadness]

Made it back to OH.

Wasn't going to do a writerly ways this weekend but one of my friends struck up a conversation with me about it so....


i've had white page syndrome all week. my friend defined it as 'It's when the computer with its pages laughs back at you, come on fucker, you know you can't beat me, nah-nah-nah-nah, and sentences arrive on it bloodied and gasping for life, like cripples born on a battlefield' Boy does that sound familiar.

Usually I write fast. I honestly rarely agonize over a word but then again my first drafts are rough, frightening things, often nothing but talking heads awaiting another go around. I'm not sure i've ever thought about how i write much.

I'm sloppy. That's the first thing that comes to mind. I'm as sloppy in my writing as I am in my every day life. The punctuation barely exists. I know whole things will have to be shifted about or deleted. I know my first readers will throw things at me screaming 'more description' But for the most part i hear the characters and they tell me what to write and if it's fanfiction, if i can't hear that character I rarely write them well.

thoughts? sound familiar? Totally opposite of how you write?


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[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

I usually start in the middle. Mind you, when I start, I don't know it will be the middle; but somewhere down the story I'll realize the scene needs some more explanation, so I'll end up adding some sentences/parragraphs/Willow's 3567 words rant to the top of the page.

I pause a lot. Especially when I'm trying to describe movement. I actually had this little notebook divided in hand movement / facial expressions / body movements / moving... and there was one more category, I'm sure.... Oh yeah! Manners of speech. I kinda lost that notebook, and haven't really gotten up to redoing the whole thing, but some of it stayed with me.

If I had a Thesaurus, it would be my best friend. As it is, I press Alt+F7 like crazy.

Hmmm... Oh yes, and I shouldn't be allowed to take breaks. Once I take a break from a story, chances are I'll never continue it. Ditto for stuff I write in notebooks; to type it, it has to be something that a) it's meant for someone else or b) I'm dying to know everyone else's opinion.

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i'm an expert at the stopping something and letting it die. Witness FIVE nano 'wins' languishing