I'm still wrestling with the "create an outline first"/"just sit down and write" dilemma. I've written stories using the second method, but it involves a lot of wrong directions and thrashing around. However, outlining has other pitfalls. I had a wonderful outline for the magic college story that made perfect logical sense, but when I came to write it, it didn't make emotional sense and I couldn't get the protag to behave as I needed her to behave without her seeming totally inconsistent.
Relationship/emotional arcs I tend to do in my head, by feel, then scribble down as notes so I don't forget them (though actually I don't ever forget). I do need to know those aspects up front or I can't get the novel to progress at all.
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Date: 2008-09-28 03:57 pm (UTC)Relationship/emotional arcs I tend to do in my head, by feel, then scribble down as notes so I don't forget them (though actually I don't ever forget). I do need to know those aspects up front or I can't get the novel to progress at all.