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[turps]

I have a writing question o friends list.

How do you approach writing a story? Do you start at the beginning and keep going to the end? Hop around filling in scenes where needed? Something else?

See, I'm writing something that's pretty long, but have a scene that's buzzing inside my head. Thing is, that scene won't happen until much further into the story and I just don't work that way. I start at the beginning and write until the end. I can't imagine having a scene just sitting there waiting to be joined to the main story, but, it wants to get out so badly. I can feel the words on the tips of my fingers and it's annoying me. Plus, there's the real fear I'll forget what I wanted to write if I push them back.

So, I ask others how they write while I wrestle with what to do.

Comments

[raynedanser.livejournal.com]

It really, really depends on the story. I've written some from start to finish and I've written some where I wrote specific scenes and tied them together. If you have one scene burning a whole in your brain, write it up and hang on to it.

*snugs*

[turps33.livejournal.com]

I did write the scene in the end, well, form of it anyway. It seems I just can't write in scenes and tie them together, it just feels wrong. But scenes planned well and kept in a different file in the same folder. A very different thing :)

[raynedanser.livejournal.com]

Mmmhmm....

Been there, done that too...