Comments on: Cooking Up Some Creative Constraints http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/09/cooking-up-some-creative-constraints/ The Probabilities of Storytelling Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:30:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: The Squeaking Noodle http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/09/cooking-up-some-creative-constraints/comment-page-1/#comment-859 The Squeaking Noodle Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:32:13 +0000 http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/09/cooking-up-some-creative-constraints/#comment-859 Great site - will be stopping by again and again. Someone once told me, that when a writer stops writing, that's exactly when they start feeling bad and then they mistakenly translate that feeling into a reason not to write. If you are a writer - not writing is often the cause for not writing. Get your head around that one. I think I know what he meant. Squeak x Great site – will be stopping by again and again.
Someone once told me, that when a writer stops writing, that’s exactly when they start feeling bad and then they mistakenly translate that feeling into a reason not to write. If you are a writer – not writing is often the cause for not writing. Get your head around that one. I think I know what he meant.
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]]> By: Almost Hypergraphic » Book-Building 101: Gathering Material http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/09/cooking-up-some-creative-constraints/comment-page-1/#comment-836 Almost Hypergraphic » Book-Building 101: Gathering Material Sun, 15 Oct 2006 01:00:34 +0000 http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/09/cooking-up-some-creative-constraints/#comment-836 [...] Eric’s post entitled “Cooking Up Some Creative Constraints” got me thinking, and thinking hard.  I’ve been fiddling around with ideas for NaNoWriMo, and I thought I had it settled, but it turns out I didn’t.  This afternoon (after sleeping in ’til 12:30 oh-em-gee that never happens anymore!) I settled in with my notebook and started writing. [...] [...] Eric’s post entitled “Cooking Up Some Creative Constraints” got me thinking, and thinking hard.  I’ve been fiddling around with ideas for NaNoWriMo, and I thought I had it settled, but it turns out I didn’t.  This afternoon (after sleeping in ’til 12:30 oh-em-gee that never happens anymore!) I settled in with my notebook and started writing. [...]

]]> By: Nienke http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/09/cooking-up-some-creative-constraints/comment-page-1/#comment-821 Nienke Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:02:48 +0000 http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/09/cooking-up-some-creative-constraints/#comment-821 My constraints are called deadlines! At work I always manage to get things done on deadline (albeit last minute). Therefore, I have signed up for the Nano. First time. You sparked the idea so I blame you. But, I need to get this first dang draft done. With Nano I can focus totally on getting words down rather than worrying about this and that and is it good enough or fixing little pieces, etc., etc., etc. I find I also work well under contest constraints too. Probably because I'm a show off. ;) Now. Can I get my outline in a decent enough shape before Nov. 1? Maybe we should have a Pre-NaNoWriMo month and call it NaOutMo (National Outlining Month). My constraints are called deadlines! At work I always manage to get things done on deadline (albeit last minute). Therefore, I have signed up for the Nano. First time. You sparked the idea so I blame you. But, I need to get this first dang draft done. With Nano I can focus totally on getting words down rather than worrying about this and that and is it good enough or fixing little pieces, etc., etc., etc.
I find I also work well under contest constraints too. Probably because I’m a show off. ;)
Now. Can I get my outline in a decent enough shape before Nov. 1? Maybe we should have a Pre-NaNoWriMo month and call it NaOutMo (National Outlining Month).

]]> By: Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Linktopia: NaNo Edition http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/09/cooking-up-some-creative-constraints/comment-page-1/#comment-816 Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Linktopia: NaNo Edition Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:24:54 +0000 http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/09/cooking-up-some-creative-constraints/#comment-816 [...] Agent X is back from vacation and blogging again . . . . Allison Brennan offers some good advice on writing flashbacks . . . . Burning Void reviews Novelist’s Boot Camp.  Therese is currently road-testing this method as well, and we’ll keep you posted on how effective it is . . . . Ray, as always, shows us the way.  This time it’s on effective openings . . . . over at Quantum, Eric, a NaNo veteran, blogs about creative constraints and how they will help your work. [...] [...] Agent X is back from vacation and blogging again . . . . Allison Brennan offers some good advice on writing flashbacks . . . . Burning Void reviews Novelist’s Boot Camp.  Therese is currently road-testing this method as well, and we’ll keep you posted on how effective it is . . . . Ray, as always, shows us the way.  This time it’s on effective openings . . . . over at Quantum, Eric, a NaNo veteran, blogs about creative constraints and how they will help your work. [...]

]]> By: Eric http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/09/cooking-up-some-creative-constraints/comment-page-1/#comment-812 Eric Wed, 11 Oct 2006 03:23:39 +0000 http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/09/cooking-up-some-creative-constraints/#comment-812 S, I know what you mean by pre-planning too much. You can only take things so small on the granular level before you become way too particular and you might as well just be drafting. Eliza, totally with you on the over-research thing. Exact facts aren't really important to the story. For me research is just fodder for ideas. The more fodder I have available to me, the more likely I'll be able to synthesize something out of it. It's pretty much a numbers game. But when you're running out of time and just need to start writing, you don't really have much time for that kind of fermentation. S, I know what you mean by pre-planning too much. You can only take things so small on the granular level before you become way too particular and you might as well just be drafting.

Eliza, totally with you on the over-research thing. Exact facts aren’t really important to the story. For me research is just fodder for ideas. The more fodder I have available to me, the more likely I’ll be able to synthesize something out of it. It’s pretty much a numbers game. But when you’re running out of time and just need to start writing, you don’t really have much time for that kind of fermentation.

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