Yeah. Like that.
My process is weird. I get that. (Okay, no, I don't; why wouldn't everybody write in this obviously superior way? ;-) But I acknowledge it.) Which means when I run across any other writer talking about their process, it's pretty well guaranteed to sound like a foreign language to me.
So I was all the more pleased to run across this post on Make Mine Mystery today. Which sounds so much like my process that I can just point and say "That! There! Like that!"
(Okay, not so much with the outlining. I don't outline, but that's not why.
And I don't usually have four projects on the burner at one time. Three, however, is not unheard of.)
But the bits where she's talking about characters, and about keeping the story straight -- yes, that. Exactly. How else would one do it?
So I was all the more pleased to run across this post on Make Mine Mystery today. Which sounds so much like my process that I can just point and say "That! There! Like that!"
(Okay, not so much with the outlining. I don't outline, but that's not why.
And I don't usually have four projects on the burner at one time. Three, however, is not unheard of.)
But the bits where she's talking about characters, and about keeping the story straight -- yes, that. Exactly. How else would one do it?