Before I forget, I got your story for beta-ing and shall work on it soon.
* do you always write/edit on-screen or do you need a hardcopy?
I do it all onscreen now. My first fic - Waters of March - was done on paper quite a bit, because I was spending countless hours watching soccer practices and getting chewed up by mosquitos. That was the last fic I've done that way. I change things too much to have a chance with the dead tree version anymore. In fact, when I went to Santa Fe I borrowed a laptop so I could write.
* had you plotted out the whole story arc before even starting the sequel?
Most of it, yes. I love that part of the writing process: I tell myself the story. Mostly in big, broad strokes. But I do flesh out the theme and the general story arc before I begin to write the first scene. This one I had figured out quite a lot beforehand; when the flaws became apparent, it threw me for only a day or two before I concocted a whole new ending. Again: big and broad. The details were a little harder to come by. This process is a first for me: I've never rewritten to such a great extent before.
I like a lot of plot in my stories. I'm not particularly poetic in my language, but I can keep a reader entertained with the "so then what happens?" kind of writing.
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Date: 2005-03-13 12:55 am (UTC)* do you always write/edit on-screen or do you need a hardcopy?
I do it all onscreen now. My first fic - Waters of March - was done on paper quite a bit, because I was spending countless hours watching soccer practices and getting chewed up by mosquitos. That was the last fic I've done that way. I change things too much to have a chance with the dead tree version anymore. In fact, when I went to Santa Fe I borrowed a laptop so I could write.
* had you plotted out the whole story arc before even starting the sequel?
Most of it, yes. I love that part of the writing process: I tell myself the story. Mostly in big, broad strokes. But I do flesh out the theme and the general story arc before I begin to write the first scene. This one I had figured out quite a lot beforehand; when the flaws became apparent, it threw me for only a day or two before I concocted a whole new ending. Again: big and broad. The details were a little harder to come by. This process is a first for me: I've never rewritten to such a great extent before.
I like a lot of plot in my stories. I'm not particularly poetic in my language, but I can keep a reader entertained with the "so then what happens?" kind of writing.