Writing and driving metaphor
@sallypup (69190)
Centralia, Washington
December 3, 2015 11:18am CST
I'm slip sliding in and away from a short story. I am not one of those folks who writes the start, an outline and an ending. I'm more of a fraidy cat driver tooling around screaming, trying to avoid the deep ditch.
What kind of writer are you? Do you go boldly into literary outer space, prepared to slay the Outer Reaches Slugs? Or are you hiding behind that slammed shut hatch? Back to Earth driving: want to taxi my husband to work? Please??
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@sallypup (69190)
• Centralia, Washington
3 Dec 15
Hi @bluedoll I do feel lucky today. I wish the bully Winter wasn't leering at me, though. I'm still trying to figure out what I want to explore in this latest story. No clear ending for sure at this point. An outline is too mathematical for me.
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@Bluedoll (16770)
• Canada
3 Dec 15
@sallypup I've never been able to do it so can't be of much help I'm afraid. I wonder if we made something up just for fun and tried to get to that point. I write without thinking much of all the things people say they think about. Just write. Yes those short days and long nights are upon us.
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@Rohvannyn (3098)
• United States
3 Dec 15
I use outlines as framework and reminders. When I see the whole grand sweep of a story in my mind I want to remember how it ends. How I get to the end might change but the main pieces are still usually there. Outlines also have made collaboration a lot easier for me.
But yes, sometimes I also set pen to paper and just see where it goes.
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@sallypup (69190)
• Centralia, Washington
3 Dec 15
@rohvannyn: I share the house with Grandma. I have chores that need doing today, like making bread and supper before I take her to the Center so that she can get toenails trimmed. Weirdness to have the last pages of this current story out on the table and Grandma looking, reading, confusing the chunk with this years Christmas Tale. She wondered if you had always written so much?
@cahaya1983 (11116)
• Malaysia
4 Dec 15
I just write whatever's on my mind, whenever it comes to mind. I'm not the type who really goes by the book, making a proper outline and things like that. I would if I have to, but when it comes to writing here I really don't have any particular method that I stick to.
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