stephenspower
Inkling
Writers are often broken into two camps: plotters and pantsers, that is, they write by the seat of their pants, starting out blind and seeing where their characters take them. I fall between the two. I like to know where I'm going, but I also want the opportunity to deviate from my course along the way, bring in new characters and explore aspects of my story I couldn't have conceived of until getting deep into it. At the very least playing and sidetracking can confim that my destination is good.
I think I've come up with a decent system for taking this more casual route from "once upon a time" to "happily ever after" (or, in my case more likely "then the world exploded"). The system enabled me to write my first novel, and it seems to be working for my second, even though the chapters in the first are generally built around one character and set pieces while those in the second build towards moments of intersection between the lives of many more characters.
Please let me know what you think. Every system needs continual refinement.
(Mods, if it's too self-promotional to post a link to my own blog, please let me know.)
I think I've come up with a decent system for taking this more casual route from "once upon a time" to "happily ever after" (or, in my case more likely "then the world exploded"). The system enabled me to write my first novel, and it seems to be working for my second, even though the chapters in the first are generally built around one character and set pieces while those in the second build towards moments of intersection between the lives of many more characters.
Please let me know what you think. Every system needs continual refinement.
(Mods, if it's too self-promotional to post a link to my own blog, please let me know.)