Mine came from the fact that I needed an alter screen name from my normal one, but I wanted (for my own sake) for it to be alphabetically right next to my old one so my stories would all be in a row in the author index. So I figured enterpri was good to get me next to enterprisescribe, but now I needed an ending. I thought, hey I like kayaking, why not use kayak?
T'Sara, of course I remember now! That seemed so familiar to me. I got the cassette version of The Devil's Heart and listened to Gates McFadden reading it as I went to sleep for months. Weird dreams this gives you, as I recall.
Trouble getting started T'Sara? Start writing scenes. That's it. Stories aren't always linear in creation (I bet rarely). For me it is like making a paper flower from the middle out, or from the upper left side down, or what have you. Start with something, and more connects and connects. You see what you must go and add before or after. Also, if I am bored writing one part, or get stuck, I go the bit where Trip's brother phones and do that scene instead. Have an idea? Write it out prose style. Write that whole scene, even if you don't know what lies b4 or after. More will come, I almost promise.
Warning: when you write this way, you really gotta go through and edit after, cause little confusions get in, like 3/4 the way down
Infrequentus Part 1, when I mix up which baby has red and which has green blood. I wrote the beginning of the scene at a different time from the end.
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