I write between 2,000 to 7,000 a day depending on what I'm writing, or if I'm on a roll. Usually it's around 3,000ish or a little more otherwise.
I don't like a rigid outline. I like to kind of plan loosely, so then the story becomes malleable. So if the story veers off in another direction...
I wasn't sure but that was the way I was going to go with it anyway. I just wasn't sure but this makes the most sense for my story.
She's unconscious. Head trauma, swollen eye too. Small lacerations. She was attacked by somebody and left to die essentially on the side of a road.
A swollen eye, unconscious, with potential hematoma due to head trauma.
Setting is contemporary, in a small town in Washington about two hours drive from the nearest city; most likely Spokane.
I'm writing a little romance story and it begins with the main character finding the girl injured on the side of the road. The town they live in...
I find it interesting in learning how others describe their scenes or chapters. So many people do it in their own way. I never thought it was such...
What information do you write about, that helps you envision the scene as a whole?
Sorry, I meant that I tend to only outline the first act with a large structure because I know the story will change and mold around things. So in...
How would I outline minimally? Just a few notes on important points throughout the timeline? I mean, there's only one big plot point, and an...
I see what you mean. Go back to complete basics and kind of find my own comfortable process outside of all these formulas flowing around my brain.
I can't just pants though. I need to have some kind of outline, even bare minimum of what happens to a point. I suck at this.
It's been ten years where I started out just enjoying the process. I'd write aimlessly, poorly, and with no direction. I'd end up writing awful...
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