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Questions to ponder part 11
Rose:
Actually I haven't Julie lol. Normally I know what it needs to be going in. RMTW was gonna be 1st person but I immediately realized as I was working out my "outline" that I'd write myself into a possible corner. My compromise was third person but with "Brian" as the author. Which was a neat thing to try and do.
I haven't really changed my mind when I started a story what POV to use. Sometimes I'll use a prologue in first but then switch to third for the rest of the story until the epilogue. But that's always planned LOL. I love living in the character's head.
RokofAges75:
I usually don't do that either. I constantly edit as I go, but I hate rewriting and doing major revisions, so I try to avoid that if I can by planning ahead. The only time I have written two different versions of a story, one in first person and one in third, was with Unsuspecting Sunday. I started writing it in third person originally, but it got weird when I started getting to the slash stuff - too many male pronouns, and it just sounded so (for lack of a better word) freaking GAY! So I rewrote it in first person, and it was much better! Less confusing about who was doing what to whom, and I could pretend Howie was a chick without getting too weirded out about what he was doing to Nick. Yay! :) I don't know how slash writers write in third person LOL. I'm thinking slash, for me, will always be done in first.
FrickingKaos:
I don't have that much experience with first person POV, but I have been making an effort to get better at writing it through one shots, so I can try to write all the boys that way. Finding Carter was my first novel completely in first person from start to finish and I was so afraid it would not turn out well but I think it did.
I guess third person is just easier for me to do, but I am trying to branch out.
Carter:
I always have to make revisions because i will think of something else while typing. Or i will make notes on paper.
Here leads to another question do you guys plan out chapters with outlines or just go with the flow of things?
FrickingKaos:
I have never outlined a story before. I don't really do much planning before I set out to write it, I give myself a general idea what I want to accomplish and just wing it because I write completely from my cell phone. It's a bit
harder for me to outline.
I know I keep mentioning Finding Carter but that also was the first story where I actually planned it and did a lot of research for.
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