Writing process
July 18, 2006 | Uncategorized
I’m sulking away in the edit cave. There are those who like polishing. I don’t.
Preferences aside, I will admit I’ve gotten stuck in the editing phase and ground away endless days. Making no discernible progress, while obsessing over the placement of a comma versus perhaps a semi-colon or maybe two choppy little sentences. . .
The next story whispers seductively in my mind. You’ve learned so much. This one will be magic. It would be too – if I had the skill to transfer the brilliant scenes in my head onto the blank screen. Wonderful prose seldom flows from my fingertips – even when I think that’s exactly what’s happening. :(
Reality is plodding through an outline, character sketches, a first draft and then a second, a third – you get the picture. I don’t keep track of the number of revisions before submission. It might discourage me.
Grudgingly, I’m coming to the conclusion writing the synopsis before the first draft might be a good plan. I learn things about my story when I write the synopsis that weren’t obvious when I was in creative mode. For me there are benefits to preparing a long and a short synopsis. Different tools, which yield different information about the story.
How about you – what’s your favorite part of writing? How much do you polish?
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July 18th, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Yeah, revisions aren’t the high-point of my writing process either.
I like the idea time, when it’s new and all the little one-liners or scenes are popping up faster than I can note them down. Then comes the hard part of trying to put it all together in an organized fashion LOL.