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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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[turps33.livejournal.com]

I've adopted the idea you presented here. I can't write any way but linear. I tried but it felt wrong. However, what I can do is write out notes for scenes that can be slotted in later. Heck, those scenes can be fleshed out and almost complete but I just can't add them to the main file. Seeing that chunk of text and knowing it needs to be joined feels wrong and makes me anxious.

I agree, we must bring this up in chat, along with many other things :)