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Agreed Moondawg

posted by tigerprincess on February 18, 2005 at 7:35 AM | link to this | reply

i live life without one-wheeeeeeeeeeeee

posted by poetjpb on February 17, 2005 at 6:28 PM | link to this | reply

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 | link to this | reply

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 | link to this | reply

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 | link to this | reply

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 | link to this | reply

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 | link to this | reply

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 | link to this | reply

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 | link to this | reply

No blueprint here!

posted by Ca88andra on February 16, 2005 at 2:28 AM | link to this | reply

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 | link to this | reply