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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

[silveryscrape.livejournal.com]

That sternness is the hardest thing. I had to tell a whole scene to go away last week, after I'd put hours and hours into it, and it cried. :P

[nopseud]

I had to tell a whole scene to go away last week, after I'd put hours and hours into it, and it cried. :P

I always cut and paste unwanted scenes into a big edits file, and tell them that they'll get recycled into another story later. Usually it's a lie, but I guess it's a good lie, like telling kids the goldfish has gone to Heaven when you really flushed its sad little corpse down the toilet.

[silveryscrape.livejournal.com]

Oh, I keep them, too. Can't bear to part with them. Then once a year I drag them out and read them, along with the 390475098 wips I never manage to get to.