Check-in post, days 12 & 13 + Weekly beta-seeking/snippet-posting/general chatter

[lola_mento]

Long time no seeing you. (Yesterday was one of Those Days when nothing gets ever done, including posts.)

Making any progress lately? Feeling like murdering someone already? Got completely distracted from whatever you were doing? Wait, that's me.

Today's discussion subject: are you more of a plotter (someone who has to know beforehand how the story goes) or a pantser (someone who makes it up as they go)? Plotter or pantser? describes some different types of each. I've seen these terms mostly from pro-writing novelists, where it's used as a thing of outline-or-no-outline, but for fannish writing, a more general planning-or-no-planning works better, I think.

And! This is also the weekly post where you can:

-Make a request for a beta reader/someone to bounce ideas from/something else you may need

-Post a snippet of your WIP

-Chat about anything else

Comments

[raletha]

if I outline and know what's going to happen then I lose interest and have no need to write the story since I already know how its going to end.

I totally get this too. I can't outline, but I am learning to plan in a way that doesn't suck all the juice from my interest in writing longer stories. I've found a method that leaves me feeling more 'I can't wait to write that scene!' instead of 'oh, that scene'. I think plans work best for me if I have intentions for the scene planned (like, x needs to happen at this point in the story somehow) but not necessarily the specific details (p, d, and q in this scene, therefore x). That way I can still have fun with the somehow, but the intention keeps me on track. At least I think this is how it is working for me these days. ^^;;

Your snippet is fun! I should probably feel sorry for Ron, but I don't. XD