Mythopoet
Auror
Honestly, I do whatever seems like a good idea at the time.
Writing without a plan for me leads to exploding word count and often meandering scenes.
But I am unable to respond right now, as I would like, because I'm am in the middle of replacing ball-joints, wheel-bearings, and tie-rod ends on my pickup. So, at the moment, I have my hands full.
I have some talent in writing but I'm not an english major. What is the difference? I don't want to assume, Google's being rude. Is it writing off the top of the gead versus drawing up an outline?
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How can I write a story without any outlines when I'm not sure where the story is going to go? I don't want a messy narrative, I want foreshadowing and I want the plot to unravel with clever bits here and there. How do I do that?
Hi,
I'm probably the most pure pantster there is. I simply start with a scen, a person, a world or something and go from there.I not only have no idea where a books going to end, I often don't know where it's going to go next. Many times I end up surprising myself. Usually I just write, put myself in the shoes of the MC and then see what happens.
It's a good system in a way. It keeps me motivated and fresh, and my word counts per day can be really good. It's also I think truer to my characters. I don't have to write an MC winning a battle etc to match a plot outline. It may be more real for himto lose, or run away or do something dishonourable. But at the same time I have well over a hundred novels on my computers now which are in various stages of completion, because I reached a certain point and then didn't know where the story goes next. On the other hand it's not all terrible with twenty three books pubbed.
Cheers, Greg.
Is it the outlining that causes me to lose interest? Then that might be the problem I always have. I've never been able to finish a large story yet, the longest thing I've ever wrote was just a Jurassic Park fan script that was 60 pages, and it's usually because I begin to doubt and lose interest in the the story during the outline stage. If its the outline that's causing me to have this trouble, then perhaps I should change the way I right.
I'm like you as well, envisioning stories visually and like a scene in a movie. I became a movie person before I was big reader, and I write mainly because I can't paint or draw very well and I don't have the resources to direct a high budget movie with tons of visual effects. Writing is the best format I have to describe these 'scenes' I have in my head. But to me, outlining became even more important when I realized that. That's when I started going scene by scene of what was going on, making sure there were no inconsistencies and that each part was good as a story before I could physically start writing it.
How can I write a story without any outlines when I'm not sure where the story is going to go? I don't want a messy narrative, I want foreshadowing and I want the plot to unravel with clever bits here and there. How do I do that?