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Post by Kpatch on Sept 5, 2012 15:55:40 GMT -5
Question for authors:
Have you ever been so excited about a story you were working on that you couldn't stop thinking about it?
That's happening to me right now. I'm writing a period piece and trying some new techniques (new for kpatch) and I have the story all planned out and it's working out really well -- pardon the run-on sentence -- but it won't leave me alone. I think about it all day/night and keep getting sparks of new ideas for scenes that I hadn't been planning. I can't wait to get it all on paper, but I can't write that fast. The typing is the slow part.
I don't think I've ever been this excited about a work-in-progress.
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Post by jwsel on Sept 6, 2012 0:04:08 GMT -5
I love that feeling. It's like the story just flows. In my writing group, we always joke that it's when your muse is with you.
The first story I wrote, I had in my head for about a day and then I started writing. I didn't stop writing for about 12 hours until it was done. The next one I wrote in five days and was 140 pages. I couldn't write it fast enough. I remember one short story that sort of came to me as I was in my car on my way to work and it was a complete distraction all day. I finally snuck out of work early to go home and get it down.
For my Days' fics, a lot of Collateral Damage and my weekly soap have flowed like that. When I'm driving to work, I can't listen to the radio, because I'm thinking up scenes. Sometimes, when I get to work, I have to write them down longhand because I can't use my work computer. At night, it can sometimes be hard to sleep because I have scenes running through my head.
My big problem is that my stories usually start with that kind of feeling. When I get writer's block, it never happens on page 10. It always waits until I'm around page 300.
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Post by slyn11 on Sept 6, 2012 1:09:44 GMT -5
Pretty much all the time. I'm there right now.
My current story demanded to be written. It didn't give me a choice. If I had my way I'd be writing a detective story right now, but my muse is an evil wench and she won't let me out of this Undertow.
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Post by blueyed358 on Sept 26, 2012 22:55:44 GMT -5
I totally have that happen! It takes on a life of it's own and with me I see it in my head..being acted out so I know how I want the characters to say the words or what their gestures should be when they are in the scene. It plays in my mind like a movie writing itself. Your right though the typing is the slowest part. I was thinking about getting that program where you just speak and it writes it out for you.
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