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Re: Handwritten | Onward to Publication

Dave "Loose Cannon" Wills — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:57:45 -0000

You have a nice handwriting. It's pretty neat.

Hopefully the twenty-ten has been great so far and all the best with getting validated/published with your poetry and writing this year.

Re: I’m a Pyromaniac: My Writing Process

torie michelle — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:31:46 -0000

I can never do an outline that matters. It didn't work for essays in school. It didn't work for short stories (or my teenage guilty pleasure, fan fiction). Whatever I ended up writing had much more or much less than what my outline called for.

I think this is why I mostly write poems now. Long fiction and non-fiction requires such in-depth planning (i.e., keeping the characters straight and "in character," etc.).

lol @ "determine whether or not it's crap. if not, revise" Yep, that definitely goes for all genres.

Re: I’m a Pyromaniac: My Writing Process

Kristan — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:03:35 -0000

What a beautiful analogy!

I actually just commented on AllisonWinn.com about my process. It's fiction, so it's a little different, but here's what I said:

"I *think* my process is this: come up with ideas. Pick the most interesting one to me. Start writing (no outline). When not writing, think about it. After like 10k words, develop a plan (i.e., outline). Finish writing. Determine whether or not it's crap. If not, revise.

Lol."