Comments on: Countdown To NaNoWriMo 2006 http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/01/countdown-to-nanowrimo-2006/ Infinite Possibilities Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:10:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Eric http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/01/countdown-to-nanowrimo-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-784 Eric Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:42:06 +0000 http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/01/countdown-to-nanowrimo-2006/#comment-784 Oh, I thought I'd add that there is a limit to this. You can go too far if you start jotting notes for a scene and you suddenly discover that you're writing entire paragraphs of dialogue. Pull back. I do little things like... I'll allow myself one or two witty lines of dialogue if I think of them, but any more than that and I'm trying to hard to get into Drafting Mode. I think it's important to keep the phases separate. Trying to work on the arrangement and ideas WHILE you're actually writing is a disaster. For me it is, anyway... I can't manage all that at once, and need to break it down into discrete processes. Oh, I thought I’d add that there is a limit to this. You can go too far if you start jotting notes for a scene and you suddenly discover that you’re writing entire paragraphs of dialogue. Pull back. I do little things like… I’ll allow myself one or two witty lines of dialogue if I think of them, but any more than that and I’m trying to hard to get into Drafting Mode.

I think it’s important to keep the phases separate. Trying to work on the arrangement and ideas WHILE you’re actually writing is a disaster. For me it is, anyway… I can’t manage all that at once, and need to break it down into discrete processes.

]]> By: Eric http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/01/countdown-to-nanowrimo-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-782 Eric Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:37:39 +0000 http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/01/countdown-to-nanowrimo-2006/#comment-782 As much as I can. The more the better, but it varies depending on how concrete my idea is. At the very least, I define setting, characters, and primary conflict for a scene as the basic "what happens" event. Any additional information I feel I will need to convey when it comes time to actually write it, I make notes to be encapsulated within that scene. Sometimes, I only have a skeletal idea... like "Character A & Character B have a showdown in location C" And as to the HOW that happens, if I have ideas I will note those so I don't forget. If I can't think of anything (ouch) then I save it for the drafting process. But I prefer in the extreme, not to do that. It makes me really uncomfortable, because I leave myself too much room for meandering nonsense. So my general rule for scene construction is to "Be as specific as I can." As much as I can. The more the better, but it varies depending on how concrete my idea is. At the very least, I define setting, characters, and primary conflict for a scene as the basic “what happens” event. Any additional information I feel I will need to convey when it comes time to actually write it, I make notes to be encapsulated within that scene.

Sometimes, I only have a skeletal idea… like “Character A & Character B have a showdown in location C” And as to the HOW that happens, if I have ideas I will note those so I don’t forget. If I can’t think of anything (ouch) then I save it for the drafting process.

But I prefer in the extreme, not to do that. It makes me really uncomfortable, because I leave myself too much room for meandering nonsense.

So my general rule for scene construction is to “Be as specific as I can.”

]]> By: S William Shaw http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/01/countdown-to-nanowrimo-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-781 S William Shaw Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:04:39 +0000 http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/01/countdown-to-nanowrimo-2006/#comment-781 How much to you generally jot down about each scene? How much to you generally jot down about each scene?

]]> By: Eric http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/01/countdown-to-nanowrimo-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-777 Eric Fri, 06 Oct 2006 06:21:14 +0000 http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/01/countdown-to-nanowrimo-2006/#comment-777 About 20 scenes plotted... only 40 more to go! I think I need more characters. About 20 scenes plotted… only 40 more to go! I think I need more characters.

]]> By: melly http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/01/countdown-to-nanowrimo-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-776 melly Fri, 06 Oct 2006 02:01:34 +0000 http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/01/countdown-to-nanowrimo-2006/#comment-776 Oh, I most certainly hope so. I don't know if I'll start something new or just try to add 50,000 to my current WIP. Awesome that you're getting ready. Your familiarity with your world should definitely make things easier, I think. Oh, I most certainly hope so. I don’t know if I’ll start something new or just try to add 50,000 to my current WIP.
Awesome that you’re getting ready. Your familiarity with your world should definitely make things easier, I think.

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