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Myth Weaver
Musing with a tired brain here, forgive me if it goes astray.
I think everything is about finding the sweet spot. Some folks love outlines. Long ago, I pantsed stuff, and it fell apart, then I'd outline, and freeze up, then I'd pants... an ugly cycle. I stopped writing for many years, lived life, and came back to screenwriting, which is heavily structured. Wham! Lights go off in the head. Yeah, a person kind of knows structure, but until you study the crap out of it, it's this weird fuzziness in the back of the head, and it gave structure to a different type of outlining. It wasn't that my stories didn't contain the structure, I just wasn't getting what I was doing before that. Epiphanies are everything, LOL. Like waypoint writing, how you get there doesn't matter, just make sure you get to your destination, heh heh.
And it's flat amazing what the brain can be trained to do with writing and language on the subconscious level. Big structure, you bet. Stop opening sentences with so many adverbial phrases? Yup. Never even think of worthless -ly adverbs let alone type them? Ayup. Don't use "that" when it's not necessary? Sure. Scene structure? You betcha.
But I haven't yet been able to train my brain to not babble on forums. Sad.
I think everything is about finding the sweet spot. Some folks love outlines. Long ago, I pantsed stuff, and it fell apart, then I'd outline, and freeze up, then I'd pants... an ugly cycle. I stopped writing for many years, lived life, and came back to screenwriting, which is heavily structured. Wham! Lights go off in the head. Yeah, a person kind of knows structure, but until you study the crap out of it, it's this weird fuzziness in the back of the head, and it gave structure to a different type of outlining. It wasn't that my stories didn't contain the structure, I just wasn't getting what I was doing before that. Epiphanies are everything, LOL. Like waypoint writing, how you get there doesn't matter, just make sure you get to your destination, heh heh.
And it's flat amazing what the brain can be trained to do with writing and language on the subconscious level. Big structure, you bet. Stop opening sentences with so many adverbial phrases? Yup. Never even think of worthless -ly adverbs let alone type them? Ayup. Don't use "that" when it's not necessary? Sure. Scene structure? You betcha.
But I haven't yet been able to train my brain to not babble on forums. Sad.