Writing.....

[fractured_sun]

Yay it's friday, and yay a little more progress on my hlh-shortcuts fic. At the moment it's not so much a fic as unconnected paragraphs.... This is however a step up from bullet points so progress has been made. It's funny how my method of writing changes between stories.... Some start out as random ideas in bullet points and get written out of order as paragraphs more bullet points get added and turned into paragraphs and then (hopefully) the whole lot is fit together. Others I start at the beginning, and just write without benefit of plot and see where it takes me. (Amusingly the one's which basically are bullet points were written in order, from start to finish in one go). None of them ever turn out quite what I originally planned and whenever I read them back I am always surprised by which bits worked and find things I didn't even notice before. I always do when I read other peoples writing, but you would think that having written that I would know it inside out . Does anyone else find that with their writing?

Comments

[snakewhissperer.livejournal.com]

oh yeah, i even have it where i make a throwaway comment in the begin and somehow, they'll come back at hte end and refer to it...60 pages later. And I've got to go back and check it.

[fractured-sun.livejournal.com]

:0) Not just me then, that's good... I find that particularly with my chaptered fics (the fact I can go a year before updating doesn't help) I just have to go back and check whether what I'm writing makes sense with what went before.