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?

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[jinxed-wood.livejournal.com]

My writing style is all over the place, and the way I write depends greatly on what inspired me to write the story. For instance, I really want to write a Christmas/Solstice crossover fic featuring Methos and Romana, and I want the mood to echo this Christmas music video I found by Annie Lennox. So in my mind, I can picture the place and the mood - but a plot? Not so much:-P





On the other hand, hlh_shortcuts has turned out quite plotty, but the mood of the piece veers from amusing fluff to drama. I'm not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing.

I do know my writing is like my painting in one respect. I can tell in the first thirty seconds of a writing/painting session whether I'm going to produce anything decent that day. It's either clicking or it isn't.

And I obsess about my opening paragraph.

[fractured-sun.livejournal.com]

it's either clicking or it isn't
oh yes, some days I just can't write anything worth reading and the most I can hope to do is some editing. Other days I can just sit down and words just come.