First of all, congrats! Always feels good when you think you have it figured out and life cooperates, doesn't it? :-)
I hear people talk of having particular scenes in their heads that they write down as those scenes come, and what I've come to realize is that my scenes aren't so much scenes as images with a lot of fill-in-the-blanks. It's stuff happening, but I don't know why, or when, or what's being said, and won't know until I've written whatever comes before that scene.
I find myself a lot in the part about the images. I sometimes have what I call a "scene flash", where I have a visual image in my head (more video than static picture) and then the scene goes from there. Sometimes it's just the visual element, sometimes it's both the setup of the scene and the dialogue.
However, for me this can happen at any point in the story. Drabbles, ficlets and one-shots often revolve around that one scene, and my writing for those is almost exclusively linear. However, for longer stories, I can also do the non-linear model, but I'd say that 90% of my stories are written linearly.
Right now I'm working on a ReGenesis story, and that one's all over the place. It's probably the messiest story I've ever written. I started jotting down notes, then wrote a whole scene in the middle, took notes again, wrote another scene, and another with gaps in between (a lot of them stemming from my scene flashes). Then I wrote the very first scene, then the very last. And now the blanks in between need to get filled. I'm gonna have to edit the hell out of that story, and that's the part I'm looking forward to the least.
Looks like we both need some good writing mojo. :-) Best of luck with your original story.
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Date: 2011-11-27 09:16 am (UTC)From:I find myself a lot in the part about the images. I sometimes have what I call a "scene flash", where I have a visual image in my head (more video than static picture) and then the scene goes from there. Sometimes it's just the visual element, sometimes it's both the setup of the scene and the dialogue.
However, for me this can happen at any point in the story. Drabbles, ficlets and one-shots often revolve around that one scene, and my writing for those is almost exclusively linear. However, for longer stories, I can also do the non-linear model, but I'd say that 90% of my stories are written linearly.
Right now I'm working on a ReGenesis story, and that one's all over the place. It's probably the messiest story I've ever written. I started jotting down notes, then wrote a whole scene in the middle, took notes again, wrote another scene, and another with gaps in between (a lot of them stemming from my scene flashes). Then I wrote the very first scene, then the very last. And now the blanks in between need to get filled. I'm gonna have to edit the hell out of that story, and that's the part I'm looking forward to the least.
Looks like we both need some good writing mojo. :-) Best of luck with your original story.