Question for writers...

[butterfly]

Do y'all know where you're going when you write?

Even when I try to make myself a road-map, I always end up going way off-course.

Comments

Well...

[powrhug.livejournal.com]

I'm an impulse writer. I've never planned anything I've ever written (other than the drabbles to some extent). I just get this scene that starts playing out in my head and I sit and sorta "trascribe" what's going on until it's over. It all comes out in this rush that's hard to keep up with (terrible typist that I am). That's why most of my fic is under 2000 words. Because I just get it all out in one sitting while it's there happening for me. If I have ever tried to actually plan? It comes out all...I dunno...wrong.

And I never know when it's finished until it's over. And then I don't do anything with it other than proof it. I never rewrite anything. Simply because of what it was--capturing a moment. If I tried to rewrite it would really not be what it was. And I'd probably end up scrapping it all and starting again. LOL

Most of my Michael/Isabel and Angel/Kate are more like stream-of-conscious moments in time rather than any sort of plot-driven actual works of fiction.

So...LOL No! I never know what I'm going to write.

Re: Well...

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

I sorta do both. I can rewrite fic after it's written and generally do, but sometimes I end up completely changing the thrust of the fic in the process.

Which is what always happens with lambs. All of my lambs stories/snippets end up lighter than what I started off with. I can't make them stay dark.

Re: Well...

[powrhug.livejournal.com]

LOL Well you know..here I am on the other side of the divide! *g*

Actually HAPPY is the only thing I've ever really set out to do. So maybe that's why I'm not that comfortable with my happy. It just feels forced since I had to plan it in order to write it.

And lambs are good no matter how they come. =) Especially your lambs!

Re: Well...

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Aw.

*blushes so brightly that it shines across the great divide*

I wuv you, too.

And yeah, I try to write dark.

Except when I'm doing Britney, where dark comes to me naturally.