SuzyShearer on Nostr: #writerscoffeeclub How does your plot structure grow? Linearly as you go? Or does it ...
#writerscoffeeclub How does your plot structure grow? Linearly as you go? Or does it grow out from one or more ideas?
Structure?? Linear??
Very organically.
The idea is a tiny bud. Never grows one chapter after the other. I consider myself a 'butterfly panster', flitting here and there from one chapter to another. Might write the end, then chapter 5, off to chapter 27.
Ooh an idea for chapter 18, let's get that written. Back to chapter 1 and 2.
I use Scrivener, drag chapters around, change order, until finally I have a complete 1st draft. Mind you that still gets moved around, bits added as I think of them. Others chopped out.
Thank goodness Scrivener makes it so easy for authors like me.
Structure?? Linear??
Very organically.
The idea is a tiny bud. Never grows one chapter after the other. I consider myself a 'butterfly panster', flitting here and there from one chapter to another. Might write the end, then chapter 5, off to chapter 27.
Ooh an idea for chapter 18, let's get that written. Back to chapter 1 and 2.
I use Scrivener, drag chapters around, change order, until finally I have a complete 1st draft. Mind you that still gets moved around, bits added as I think of them. Others chopped out.
Thank goodness Scrivener makes it so easy for authors like me.