Comments on: If it ain't broke…

By: kacey

kacey — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:51:09 +0000

wow, I so could not do that! I feel guilty if I just sneak in writing a scene from later in the book…

Hey, but if it works for you, I say don’t mess with it!

By: Stephanie Tyler - Military Romance Author

Stephanie Tyler - Military Romance Author — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:11:32 +0000

[...] And speaking of out-of-order, if you want to see an example of what my rough drafts look like, you can head over to Shannon’s entry – it’s nice to know that I’m not the only one who does this. [...]

By: Steph T.

Steph T. — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:16:57 +0000

Yeah, that’s pretty much exactly how I write…pages and pages of small, random scenes that came to me out of order and just had to be written down.

My favorite part is when it comes time to fit them all together like a big, giant puzzle!!

I gave up trying the in-order thing – this has gotten me through writing many books, so I’m done messing with my process. :crazy:

By: Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:53:26 +0000

thereâ€™s no way I could keep the sequence straight when it was time to start piecing it together

I don’t really have a problem with that because the the pieces are in sequence already. I fit them in were they fall in the story. The hard parts for me are the segues into the next scene…the bridges from scene to scene.

Thank you, Rae! :kiss:

And my muse is very relieved I’ve stopped trying to make her walk the straight and narrow. :nod:

By: Mel

Mel — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:53:10 +0000

whatever works for you–and clearly this really works!

:dance:

By: Heather Rae Scott

Heather Rae Scott — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:48:33 +0000

:baby: It makes my head spin as well…wow.

I just have to say though, that if that’s how you write and it works for you, then you do it.

I left you something on my blog. You deserve it. I’m still :clap: I :censor: :love: 72 HOURS!

I’ve had lots of :coffee: because YOU kept me up until after 4 am.

By: Karen Templeton

Karen Templeton — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:19:24 +0000

Since I’m clearly schizo, I’m linear for the first four or five chapters, then I do the X thing, too. Not as much as you, but sometimes I know what the scene needs to be, but it’s just not in my head so I type a few sentences in caps and move on.

Oh, I also have a lot of FINISH THIS and NEEDS WORK sprinkled throughout, too. :crazy:

And when I get to the 3/4 mark, I often get the itch to base in the epilogue.

I do not, however, write THE END until I have a reasonably complete first draft. It may be crap, but at least it’s all more or less there. :thumb:

By: Paula

Paula — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:07:54 +0000

OMG, I thought I was the only crazy person who wrote like that. Scenes come to me and I jot them down, then start piecing them together to form a coherent MS. Only bad thing is I don’t always get the snippets from the same WIP so I constantly write it down and have to put the title of the WIP on the top of the page so I can file it with that certain paperwork. How on earth I keep the characters straight and the stories seperate in my head is beyond even me. :type:

By: Jaci Burton

Jaci Burton — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:47:40 +0000

:wtf:

That makes my freakin head spin, Shan.

I’m linear. Can’t do it any other way or I’ll implode. But I’m glad you’ve stopped beating your head against the wall for thinking you’re doing it wrong. And I’ve read your books. It works for you so keep it up. :cheer:

By: Shiloh Walker

Shiloh Walker — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:39:05 +0000

:shrug:eeekkk… how can you write like that?

I know some people do, but there’s no way I could keep the sequence straight when it was time to start piecing it together.