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To: NicknamedBob
Shouldn't you be writing the books on paper?
1,632 posted on 12/14/2007 6:10:18 PM PST by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: fanfan
"Shouldn't you be writing the books on paper?"

It gets to paper eventually. First, I compose a mental screenplay. Over and over again, I set the stage, call for action, and monitor the results.

When I am satisfied with the way the characters interact, and the action sequences, then I sit down like a movie critic and write the details.

This works for me. Your mileage may vary.

There is also a review, rewrite, polish and print phase. That's when it gets to paper. I like the feel of a printed document, and I reread and rewrite from that document.

As I find errors or awkward phrasing, I change the memory in the computor. Slowly it gels into something I can take pride in.

Most of my writing gets very little revision, primarily because I've done the prewrite finagling already.

(Poems are different -- but I've already described that.)

1,639 posted on 12/14/2007 6:59:51 PM PST by NicknamedBob (I had the solution for everything, but it got out of its container.)
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