I could SO not do that method. I'm one of the seat-of-the-pants writers he describes as shrieking at the thought of doing a
Snowflake document. I'm not a pure pantser--I do know where this thing is going, just not precisely how I'm going to get there. And that's part of the fun, discovering the path between where I am now and that mountaintop of finished story on the horizon. In particular, I'd hate doing character descriptions and charts. I just can't imagine doing something so mechanical. At the risk of sounding all woo-woo about this, my characters are people. I don't build them, I know them.
Obviously, you do whatever works for you. As Jenny Crusie says, there are many roads to Oz. That one is just the polar opposite of the one I've been paving for myself.
OK, so I just finished the first of Conn Iggulden's GENGHIS series and went and found his website so I could check his backlist and so on.
He's my age! Dammit.
OK, I'm 37, so it's not all that surprising that there are people my age with books on the shelves. But...he has eight books out already, and I have a big fat zero. So I'm all irrationally jealous.
I'm jealous of you, Susan, for being so much more motivated than I am and for having such an intimate relationship with your characters.
I'm jealous of you, Susan, for being so much more motivated than I am and for having such an intimate relationship with your characters.
Well, the other way to put that is that I'm stubborn and maybe a little bit crazy...
I don't do character charts or lists, either. I tried it once, and it bored me to tears.
The bunnies (rabbits) challenge is now closed.
This week's challenge is a photo drabble.
Photos 1- 5 are of people, from the Look at me site. 6-10 are from a flickr community Amy pointed me towards that focuses on eerie, creepy, or spooky places.
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Please link to the photo you pick as your prompt.
Oooh, lots of great pictures.
Thanks, Perkins. I love the photo drabbles.
Trying my hand at one of these. It was hard to get this to 100 words exactly.
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The painting over the mantle shows a staid woman--tidy hair, starched collar, blank gaze fixed high over the viewer's shoulder. Great-grandmother Emma: matriarch and obedient wife, given to fits of melancholy.
This picture shows a woman who, interrupted, might tell the viewer to mind his own damned business. It shows another woman, perhaps the mysterious "Clara" mentioned (always in passing, always with disapproval) in their great-uncle's letters.
Jane takes the photograph when she runs away, as proof that there's one family member (so what if she's long-dead?) who understands why she's leaving and who may even give her blessing.
