I tend to have ideas as I'm walking along/at work etc. so by the time I start putting things on paper I usually have quite a lot of the plot and characters worked out. Once I start pinning it down into precise words, I usually pause to work out the details of the background, which then feeds into developing the next chunk of plot. I'm always half a book, or equivalent, ahead of what I'm actually writing.
I haven't really thought this through far enough to have any big ideas. I was really hoping to start a discussion. We could use talechasing more, and theirvoices. The drabble meme should be fun, and there's a lot of those twenty-question type memes which we could do for characters rather than ourselves.
Did you see alintaflame's magic realism challenge? That looks fun.
The calendar challenge was fun, but I'm not really thinking of big events like that (personally, I'm just too tight for time). I was thinking more of little everyday things.
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Date: 2006-05-19 09:20 am (UTC)I haven't really thought this through far enough to have any big ideas. I was really hoping to start a discussion. We could use
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The calendar challenge was fun, but I'm not really thinking of big events like that (personally, I'm just too tight for time). I was thinking more of little everyday things.