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What's your fanfic "niche"?
mare:
^ Yeah, I agree. I'm the same way. I always know how i'm starting and how I want it to end but everything in the middle is usually up for grabs. In-between I also see big turning points and scenes as well. I think go with the flow really works. The stories I have enjoyed writing more are the ones that I didn't really have a direction on although I have never written an outline for anything before. The ones I have more planned out are the ones I find harder to write. Go figure lol
Pengi:
That's a good way to word it, Rose.
Sometimes the characters just meddle too much to ever get to point B though.
I find when I write detailed outlines I never write the story. It's like it's already written so there's no excitement in it. I write for entertainment the same way people read my stories. I'm just as shocked by them as the readers are! LOL
Purpura Lipstick:
00Carter is the only story I've ever written with an outline! LOL.
RokofAges75:
I think that's where I am with Secrets; the whole story is written out as a string of summarized scenes, so why actually write it? I do want to write it and finish it, but I can't seem to maintain any kind of momentum on it. Grr.
Rose:
Yeah when an outline is too detailed I find it kills the inspiration cause the spontaneity of the characters goes poof lol.
My outlines are very hodge podge anyway lol. I just got inspired for a kidnapping story yesterday, and all it is is random ideas and events I want to happen saved in a word doc with the title and summary lmao. No order to it. But it makes sense to me.
--- Quote from: Purpura Lipstick on July 07, 2010, 11:22:38 PM ---00Carter is the only story I've ever written with an outline! LOL.
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LOL well you gotta admit, it needs it.
Undead it outlined, sort of. We have an order to it, and what we want to have happen, but the full thing isn't outlined to the end. And when the characters change something up or we get a random new idea, we go with it.
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