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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.

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[stellamira]

I write my stories from beginning to end too, and I only insert more scenes when I absolutely have to (usually I don't). When I had a future scene in my head I used to just wait until it fit in and hope I hadn't forgotten it until then. Lately, though, I've taken to writing those scenes (or sentences) down somewhere else. For me that's a seperate notebook. It works quite well, since I don't have to see the scene anywhere where it might distract me -- like at the end of a story file -- but I know where it is when I need it.