Writing Today

[cathschaffstump]

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A lot of this chapter is new material, so I will be laying pipe, pruning old branches, and revising all at the same time. The next scenes I have to pull entirely out of the ether, but I'm ready to do it.

Hope you are all having lots of creativity!

Catherine

Comments

[kara-gnome.livejournal.com]

I'm sort of edging into the same boat with my ni90. It seems like I've got about 20-25 days left on it, as the climax is coming up much faster than I thought it would.

I hope your chapter goes very well! Are you working from an outline?

[cathschaffstump.livejournal.com]

I'm working from an outline and an old draft simultaneously, although some things, like the very next things I'm working on, will have to be drafted anew.

Catherine

[kara-gnome.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it will go well, and good luck. And hopefully it merges with the outline/draft somewhere down the line? I always think it's nice to have a net that those things give you.

[cathschaffstump.livejournal.com]

Me too. What do you usually do?

Catherine

[kara-gnome.livejournal.com]

I stare with terrible longing and want at the idea of wonderful outlines that if only I could write...Then I just, I don't know, do the stupid thing and let the fingers go. I actually have no involvement. The muses have ganged up and left me out, though I have tried to show them the wisdom, the necessity, dammit! of an outline, they just pooh-pooh the notion. I'd fire them, but they've formed a union.

I think they really are the way to go, though. I'm thinking that once I get this one done, I'll go back through and see about outlining from this draft --plan to be in your shoes in a few months, really. :)