Oct. 8th, 2005

Whether or not you're NaNo-ing or not!

http://www.rsingermanson.com/html/the_snowflake.html

If you're like most people, you spend a long time thinking about your novel before you ever start writing. You may do some research. You daydream about how the story's going to work. You brainstorm. You start hearing the voices of different characters. You think about what the book's about -- the Deep Theme. This is an essential part of every book which I call "composting". It's an informal process and every writer does it differently. I'm going to assume that you know how to compost your story ideas and that you have already got a novel well-composted in your mind and that you're ready to sit down and start writing that novel.

I've read down the article and, although parts of it I don't think apply to me very well - I'm one of those "seat of the pants" writers he mentions - there are basic organizational ideas that are sound, and I may use them for essential outlining.  The snowflake part, where you just keep making the outline larger and larger and more built upon (allowing for changes as you write) makes tres sense to me.  I might try it this once during NaNoWriMo, but I'm trying to figure out how to adapt it to the timeframe.

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