Re: How do... YOU... do... "IT"?

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:53:40 -0500, "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 15:30:45 -0800, "R. L."
><see-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
><news:skico1dhsb7bn9503kcfi9se64530qhipo@xxxxxxx> in
>rec.arts.sf.composition:
>
>> On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:49:28 +0000, Neil Barnes
>> <nailed_barnacle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>[...]
>
>>> Guess my head doesn't work that way. I'm definitely on
>>> the 'blank page, start writing, see where we get to'
>>> school.
>
>> Better not read about Helen's method, or Nicky's, then. Or
>> even Patricia's. Those preparations are much more
>> detailed than my scene list.

Which starts with about half a dozen scene headings, such as "Cinderella
meets godmother".

>Not in Nicky's case: as she's described it, her starting
>point is very much 'blank page, start writing, see where we
>get to'.

Here's how she described it on this forum:

N: I draw a large circle and mark off the quarter hours. I decide how
N: many chapters I want - I write short chapters of slight less than 2k
N: and I use that as my basic measurement. I know I'm going to need say
N: ten of these to get to my first quarter so I mark off ten subsections
N: for each quartile. I then mark in where I think the key turning
N: points should come and other things like intersecting subplots (
N: though I'm quite a simple girl and tend not to have too many of those)
N: It works quite well to have key turning points around the quarter mark
N: for many structures so that every few chapters you are working towards
N: a minor dramatic climax. It rarely turns out quite so neatly in the
N: writing so it is unlikely to read in a formulaic way.
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.composition/msg/280046be57cfd578?hl=en

Helen's at http://www.livejournal.com/users/llygoden/127640.html
seems less detailed than Nicky's.


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