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Agreed Moondawg
posted by
tigerprincess
on February 18, 2005 at 7:35 AM
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i live life without one-wheeeeeeeeeeeee
posted by
poetjpb
on February 17, 2005 at 6:28 PM
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I loved this post.
It's funny because sometimes I will have this story already written in my mind (a blueprint, if you will) and when I go to write or type it all out, it takes on a completely different turn! It's almost as if my characters have minds of their own.
posted by
whyshewrote
on February 17, 2005 at 9:13 AM
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Loved the comment that
you left me. Actually though I think it is the rest of the world that is impaired and we have the right ideas about everything.
posted by
Moondawg
on February 16, 2005 at 2:04 PM
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tiger
Count me in the non-blueprint list. I let my fingers do the contruction as I type as it's so much more interesting. On finishing, even I'm surprised at where I've ended up.
posted by
johnmacnab
on February 16, 2005 at 11:05 AM
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Stories and such take some unexpected turns
when they aren't exactly plotted from the outset. That construction analogy is a good one.
posted by
word.smith
on February 16, 2005 at 10:43 AM
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Well, a blueprint here and there I can use as a base, but 92,74 % is out of the blue, that's true! See you around!
VOYAGER9940
posted by
Voyager9940
on February 16, 2005 at 8:34 AM
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I think L E Grant is closer to the truth than any
"blueprints" per se. Sometimes writing fiction is like watching a movie and you write down what the characters do and say. You have to follow the characters to at least some extent.
posted by
SlyCy
on February 16, 2005 at 5:46 AM
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Great post.
My writing style is to start with a nail and see where it goes from there. Once in awhile I'll hit the nail wrong and bend it first thing, but there's more nails in the bag.
posted by
Moondawg
on February 16, 2005 at 3:27 AM
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No blueprint here!
posted by
Ca88andra
on February 16, 2005 at 2:28 AM
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I went to a lecture on writing by a famous author (many years ago, so I can't be sure of who it was; at the time I went to anything that would help me be a writer). He claimed that he seldom had any idea where his fictions would finish up - the characters had a way of taking the story to its logical conclusion and he just followed in their wake, putting down the words.
Another one claimed that he wrote his material backwards - he always knew the ending, and then looked for what had to come before that, and so on until he reached the beginning.
So: a piece as a construction zone? why not!
posted by
L.E.Gant
on February 16, 2005 at 1:23 AM
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