Life update

[luzula]

I've gone back to work, and am trying to remember the research I was working on before the summer. My brain feels kind of like a sieve. In more cheerful news, I was at the farmer's market and bought lots of vegetables and some "mese", which is a Scandinavian spreadable cheese made from goat's milk. Yum. I also signed up for me and my flatmates to buy a lamb from a local farm (or rather, the meat from a lamb).

I'm doing ficfinishing with another story in my werewolf 'verse. This one's a casefic with Bob, Buck and Caroline (plus assorted relatives of Caroline's) set in the 1950's before Benton is born, and I just reached 7000 words. \o/

It's funny--even though I've written 80 stories according to my AO3 account, I always feel surprised when I manage to write one more. I wonder why that is? It's like the story is a gift from my brain, and I just feel grateful for it. Even when I basically know what's going to happen in a given scene, details pop up when I do the actual writing that I had no idea I was going to write. This is not to say that I don't see writing as a craft, and as something you can learn and get better at. But I do love that feeling of an idea unexpectedly popping up.

Comments

[glitteryv]

Huh, that's interesting. I usually write a rather loose outline (which includes the majority of the main scenes sketched out.) I've noticed that if I don't do that, it'll take me forever and a day to get around writing a story.

Also, based on my conversations with other writers, outlining fic is something that not many people do?

Getting that story done though, what a rush! Of course, as soon as it's posted, there are, like, a bazillion other plot bunnies queueing up to tell their stories next. Hee!

[luzula]

Oh, that's interesting. Every writer works differently, I guess--for example, I don't have such a plethora of plot bunnies as you seem to do. *g*

[china_shop]

It's like the story is a gift from my brain, and I just feel grateful for it.

Yes! I have that feeling too. I love it! (Though, that said, I'm working harder at writing than I used too, I think. Doing more of it with my conscious brain, rather than letting my subconscious take the wheel. I don't know why that is, but it still seems to work out okay. :-)

[luzula]

Yeah, there are probably advantages to learning to do it more consciously. My Big Bang fic, for example, would probably be better if I had managed to make an outline of it first, instead of just writing.

[china_shop]

My Big Bang fic, for example, would probably be better if I had managed to make an outline of it first, instead of just writing.

Maybe -- you can't know. Sometimes I find that having a plan means that the scenes don't hang together as well. I know what I want to have happen, but the events stop being logical consequences of each other, A leading to B, leading to C, etc, and become more disjointed. :-/

[luzula]

Huh, that's interesting. I've never managed to make a scene-by-scene outline of a fic before writing it, and I kind of imagined it would magically improve the structure. Which is probably a naive expectation. Maybe the difficulty with the Big Bang fic was just that it was longer than I'm used to handling, and it was harder to grasp all of it at once.

[china_shop]

Well, it sometimes improves the structure, but sometimes it makes me feel like the fic is very bitsy. This might well be a failing on my part, rather than an inherent problem with the method. :-)

[exeterlinden.livejournal.com]

\Werewolf!fic/

[luzula]

I am actually working on it at this moment! Yay for werewolves.

Speaking of, how is yours coming along?