Constant Learning Process

[mmerriam]

Yeah, you really only learn to write the particular novel you are working on.

At some point I changed from a pantser to more of a plotter. I've been outlining scenes, scenes which I am both figuring out in an out-of-sequence manner and then am writing out-of-sequence.

I'm outlining and writing scene synopsis before committing real prose. What is the world coming to?

It is less than a week until Should We Drown in Feathered Sleep releases. I plan to start talking about the novella a bit in the next few days, including pointing out where you can get two other stories that are part of the world it is set in.

Comments

[kmarkhoover.livejournal.com]

I'm old and curmudgeonly now and rarely look forward to any novel release. I am definitely looking forward to this one and I promise i will order it as soon as it is available. :)

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

I hope you enjoy it.

[kiviuq.livejournal.com]

Sometimes the best thing you can do is toss out old processes. That's what I'm doing now and it's working great.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

I think the more you write, the more your process is apt to change and refine, especially early in your career.

[glynisj.livejournal.com]

I wish I could write like you do. I always end up feeling that I've missed something when I don't stay in chronological order.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

And that was how I wrote my first two novels, strictly in chronological order. I think as you learn and grow as a writer, you keep changing and refining your process. I still write short fiction in chronological order, but it seems my process for novel writing changes with every novel.