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2 Writing 2 Thread
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: FrickingKaos on February 04, 2021, 09:05:30 PM ---I have never had regular update days myself. I mean with this current story I usually update in the beginning of the week, but the way I write is on the fly so I just post whenever I finish writing a chapter. My readers don’t seem to care either way.
The only story that I’ve ever had somewhat of an outline was Finding Carter, where I knew how I wanted it to end before I got to that point.
If I Knew Then, I am following a timeline but I pretty much write on the fly. There was a lot of drafts I did when I was still in the developing stages of the story. There was a whole chapter I wrote where Brian was going to marry Leighanne, there was a different version of some scenes too. I don’t want to give a lot away. But it went through a lot of changes.
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Did you feel like the multiple developing drafts were helpful in your planning process and do you find them preferable to an outline? Or do you consider the timeline to be your outline?
Did you have the Finding Carter outline from the beginning or just once you got to the point where you figured it out? I did that with PBox. The beginning I kind of meandered, but I had a very brief outline for every chapter from 31 on.
I know the jokes are great, but didn't want this to get lost!
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: mare on February 04, 2021, 09:02:44 PM ---My Leighanne Story
All the boys are in the recoding studio laying down a track and in walks Brian
"Hey Brian! How's Leighanne?" Nick asks anxiously.
"Dead."
"Oh...huh...and a one and a two and a..."
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Also, we should all take a moment to celebrate that Mare wrote 34 words today. :broccoli:
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on February 04, 2021, 09:27:22 PM ---You’re all wrong!
Three words
Jewish space lasers
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Hahaha!!
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 04, 2021, 09:42:54 PM ---Also, we should all take a moment to celebrate that Mare wrote 34 words today. :broccoli:
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LOL Yay Mare!
nicksgal:
Here's some random writing questions for today:
Is it "Chapter One" or "Chapter 1"?
If you have more than one scene in a chapter, what kind of scene break do you use to split them up?
If you want to designate that something is a flashback or happened in the past, how do you designate it?
Bold, italics, or underlining?
RokofAges75:
Is it "Chapter One" or "Chapter 1"?
Chapter 1. As someone who has written stories with over 100 chapters, I don't wanna have to write out "Chapter One Hundred Seventy-Seven" in words LOL.
If you have more than one scene in a chapter, how do you split them up?
I use *** for scene breaks. Or, as Text to Speech man would say, "Asterisk asterisk asterisk" LMAO. Is that what you're asking?
If you want to designate that something is a flashback or happened in the past, how do you designate it?
I write ~*~*~*~*~*~fLAsHbAcK!1!~*~*~*~*~*~*~
LOL Actually, I just put it in italics.
Bold, italics, or underlining?
I use italics for words that are emphasized in dialogue, as well as inner thoughts and flashbacks or dream sequences. I don't use bold much other than for chapter titles and when describing what signs say. I don't really use underlining in fanfics.
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