9 Feb 2012

Words.

9 Feb 2012 04:47 pm
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+460, 7190/90000.

I still haven't committed anything like preparation or outlining beyond what I did on Monday. This is also the first I've written since then, which means I'm either worrying too much about process or this thing has started cooking finally.

I really think I'm a lot closer to the pantser end of the spectrum than the planner, and I just can't think in a preparatory fashion for this.

Which is really goddamn weird, because, ask [personal profile] kirin, I'm a compulsive planner for everything else in my life. If I still had them anywhere, I'd show you the grid I made for planning our Christmas trip to Berlin in 2007 or the schedules I made for our trip through Vienna and Budapest in 2010. Though that's a lot more concrete, I think? Making sure you don't plan to go to a museum on the day it's closed (for example) is different than plotting a book.

(I don't even plot short stories! I get a sort of hook, a midpoint (at most), and a sense of the ending. But rewriting 5k words is way different than rewriting 90k words because X didn't work.)

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