Do all the good bits and then go in and fill the 'other' bits later. Backstory? What backstory?
lol--well, backstory always has to come first for me. I seem to need it even to get started. But I have been known to write a bunch of good bits and fill in. This one has some of that, but it's resisting all my usual methods. Maybe that's a good thing.
I don't get like that until I start editing, and then I get all ansty about it and grumbly and wishing I just done it in the first place.
Editing is usually a breeze for me--the opportunity to clean up all those things I second thought along the way in the first draft. I like editing. I *hate* having to whittle the ms. down, though. That's agony.
sometimes one has to dump, and that's all there is to it.
That's for sure. Have to get it on the page any way you can.
Now, if only my antag would come out of hiding, I'd be a happy bunny, too.
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Date: 2006-12-13 09:03 pm (UTC)lol--well, backstory always has to come first for me. I seem to need it even to get started. But I have been known to write a bunch of good bits and fill in. This one has some of that, but it's resisting all my usual methods. Maybe that's a good thing.
I don't get like that until I start editing, and then I get all ansty about it and grumbly and wishing I just done it in the first place.
Editing is usually a breeze for me--the opportunity to clean up all those things I second thought along the way in the first draft. I like editing. I *hate* having to whittle the ms. down, though. That's agony.
sometimes one has to dump, and that's all there is to it.
That's for sure. Have to get it on the page any way you can.
Now, if only my antag would come out of hiding, I'd be a happy bunny, too.
Pesky characters!