Fri May 15, 2020 1:58 pm Post
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Mon May 18, 2020 4:18 pm Post
Ahab wrote:For me, the main strength of Scrivener is its ease in writing out of sequence. In the formative stage of a novel, you don't really even know what the sequence is. There's a chronology, of course, but that isn't always the right sequence of presentation.
Scenes, and research, have a way of triggering other scenes that you might not have thought of. Scenes that seemed crucial in the outlining stage often become irrelevant when you later write a scene that compresses four previous scenes into one.
I tend to write the opening first, writing and rewriting until it more or less says what I want to say. Then I write the ending. All the stuff in between tends to get written as it occurs to me, the whole coming together in little snippets that get joined together or split apart or moved far away or consolidated, all in an effort to bridge that unknown gulf between Once Upon a Time and The End,
Wed May 20, 2020 2:57 pm Post
How do you write? What are your methods?
I find now that index cards are really the best kind of paper that I can use for the purpose. I don’t write consecutively from the beginning to the next chapter and so on to the end. I just fill in the gaps of the picture, of this jigsaw puzzle which is quite clear in my mind, picking out a piece here and a piece there and filling out part of the sky and part of the landscape and part of the – I don’t know, the carousing hunters.
Wed May 20, 2020 4:16 pm Post
auxbuss wrote:Ahab's post reminded me of this from Nabokov:How do you write? What are your methods?
I find now that index cards are really the best kind of paper that I can use for the purpose. I don’t write consecutively from the beginning to the next chapter and so on to the end. I just fill in the gaps of the picture, of this jigsaw puzzle which is quite clear in my mind, picking out a piece here and a piece there and filling out part of the sky and part of the landscape and part of the – I don’t know, the carousing hunters.
Wed May 20, 2020 6:05 pm Post
Ahab wrote:Linear writing produces linear books. If that's what you're after . . .
Fri May 22, 2020 9:29 pm Post
Sat May 23, 2020 4:40 am Post
Exan wrote:uhmmm
im not really good about writings, i mean i feel im not writer yet ><
but i have been writing my story and its a fiction story in the right way or at least thats what have learn from YouTube videos, anyway my opinion my not be perfect but could help/inspire
so my process now is writing all the story the way i see it as keywords/titles/points/scenes in order, but sometime i had idea to twist things or to help me build a better story or events, so i write it down just not to forget it and mark it with something to remind me where is going to fit and why, this might be like in the start or middle or end of what im writing.
i have many question about alot of things myself, but i wont learn anything unless i go through it, and what im struggling with lately is writer block but i know it normal and i have to be patient about it and what im doing actually going to minimize this struggle in the future on the actual writing i guess .
*sorry about my weak english
Alex.
Sat May 23, 2020 10:14 am Post
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