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Questions to ponder part 11
Carter:
i am OCD about certain stuff...and story writing is one of those OCD things lol.. i have a whole notebook of ideas and everything is outlined and summaries are written. If i change something I make sure to add a note or something in there so i can remember. I have lyrics for songs I have used in previous stories and things like that. I feel some times I am a bit of a freak lol.
RokofAges75:
I usually have some kind of outline, but how detailed it is depends on the story and how much wiggle room I have when getting from Point A to Point B. I almost always know how a story is going to start and end, but the middle tends to evolve as I go. For most of my medical dramas, my "outline" is really just a bunch of information from my research and a timeline of events in the story, so I can keep track of when things happened. For stories with more complex plots, I will outline chapter by chapter. Either way, I find that having an outline is helpful because it gives me a vision for where the story is going and reminds me where it's been.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: Carter on July 23, 2014, 11:12:38 AM ---i am OCD about certain stuff...and story writing is one of those OCD things lol.. i have a whole notebook of ideas and everything is outlined and summaries are written. If i change something I make sure to add a note or something in there so i can remember. I have lyrics for songs I have used in previous stories and things like that. I feel some times I am a bit of a freak lol.
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I kept a notebook like that for one of my stories, Broken, but now I just put everything in one giant Word document. The notebook was fun though because I never erased anything or ripped pages out of it, so you can see all the crazy rambling ideas I came up with that I DIDN'T write, along with the ones I did.
Sakabelle:
I usually have a couple documents going for a story at once, one that is the actual document of the story and one that is the "Notes" document. And the notes document is typically a huge mess. It has partially written scenes in it that I needed to throw somewhere as I came up with them, it has a "brain dump" of everything that has to happen in the story and it's usually just me typing in a ramble. The story I just wrote has a big twist halfway through, and I have a bullet list in that notes document called "Before the twist!" of all the things I needed to make sure I included in the first half of that story.
I don't really outline by the chapter (the only exception is Running Up That Hill because certain things have to happen on certain days because that's where they happened in real life) but I definitely make sure I have a clear direction of where the story is starting, going and ending. I find that when I start a story without knowing those things, I fall off right away. There are things that change along the way, of course, but the main points always stay the same.
As for first person vs third person, it's funny. In BSB fandom I will typically write one-shots in first person without even giving it a second thought. But usually when writing something longer I stick with third person.
--- Quote --- I don't know how slash writers write in third person LOL. I'm thinking slash, for me, will always be done in first.
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This amused me, Julie, because my prime reason for writing in third person now is because I don't think I could ever write a slash in the first person! The male pronouns are definitely a pain, though.
mare:
My stories come out of my ass! Seriously I do not outline or do notes. I know I want it to start & generally how I want it to finish, but the middle is usually a crap shoot lol
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