Yeah. Like that.

[lizvogel]

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?

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[lizvogel]

I'm not sure I know what a "hard part" looks like.

I don't have a particular *type* of scene that I hate (well, maybe red herrings, aka stuff-the-hero-tries-that-doesn't-work, but I'm getting better at it), but there are certainly times when the words flow easily, and other times when every word is like pulling teeth. And times when pulling teeth would be easy and painless by comparison.

Unless plot blurbs and other promotional/marketing type bits count?

LOL yes.