I am fairly analytic about it, but I find that interesting, since I tend not to write anything down at all. And you say you are not analytic about it, but you put so much more work into the outlining/planning than I do!
Now I use a two-columns table.
That sounds so cool. Lord, I'm a nerd.
Writing it out once I've decided sort of is, though,
I think that's me? Like, I always say to myself, "I already decided it in my head! Why bother to write it down!" But I know tons of people who decide things in their head and then can't remember what they decided. I count myself as really lucky that I almost always do.
Re: NEG. Wow, that first outline is so interesting! Especially the 12th Night ball. You took that out, right? I don't remember anything like it. But the beginning parts were very similar. I'm glad you're still working on the third draft. I believe we talked about this before . . . . I love love love love this story, so much, but the end didn't quite sit well with me, and you said that's what you're working on. I'm really eager to see how you change it, but whatever you do, I adore it to bits.
Hm! That's interesting re: your structure issues on your Yuletide story. That's sort of what like I was saying for one of the fics I mentioned above. I also wrote a story which began with one word, then was two words, then four, then eight, then a line, then two lines, then four lines, etc, until there was a great big paragraph. Then the next section started with a huge paragraph, and narrowed and narrowed into one word. Then it did that all over again, but backward. So, it looked like this:
e ee eeeee eeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeee eeeee ee e eeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeee eeeeee ee e e ee eeeeee eeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeee
What the hell makes us do these things? But I thought it fit thematically, and in the end I was rather pleased. I think it's important to challenge ourselves with structure, and not a lot of people do it with prose. And yet, it's what makes so much of poetry so awesome. Look at sonnets!
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Now I use a two-columns table.
That sounds so cool. Lord, I'm a nerd.
Writing it out once I've decided sort of is, though,
I think that's me? Like, I always say to myself, "I already decided it in my head! Why bother to write it down!" But I know tons of people who decide things in their head and then can't remember what they decided. I count myself as really lucky that I almost always do.
Re: NEG. Wow, that first outline is so interesting! Especially the 12th Night ball. You took that out, right? I don't remember anything like it. But the beginning parts were very similar. I'm glad you're still working on the third draft. I believe we talked about this before . . . . I love love love love this story, so much, but the end didn't quite sit well with me, and you said that's what you're working on. I'm really eager to see how you change it, but whatever you do, I adore it to bits.
Hm! That's interesting re: your structure issues on your Yuletide story. That's sort of what like I was saying for one of the fics I mentioned above. I also wrote a story which began with one word, then was two words, then four, then eight, then a line, then two lines, then four lines, etc, until there was a great big paragraph. Then the next section started with a huge paragraph, and narrowed and narrowed into one word. Then it did that all over again, but backward. So, it looked like this:
e
ee
eeeee
eeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeee
eeeee
ee
e
eeeeeeeeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeee
eeeeee
ee
e
e
ee
eeeeee
eeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeeeeeeee
What the hell makes us do these things? But I thought it fit thematically, and in the end I was rather pleased. I think it's important to challenge ourselves with structure, and not a lot of people do it with prose. And yet, it's what makes so much of poetry so awesome. Look at sonnets!