[OOC] Myriad Reality

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Mammalia said
I had a half-done outline for the first draft, but now it's just a skeleton since I'm doing something different for working my story. I'm developing it from a single-sentence summary, that turns into a one-paragraph summary. From there, I make those character synopses you showed so I have a high-level view of how my story is going to go. Then I get critique. Does something sound not believable, getting suggestions, etc. etc.. From there I expand my paragraph into a one-page summary of the story. Each sentence becomes a paragraph.Then I make a second set of character synopses, where the story is described in one page from the point of view of each character. Then I expand the one-page summary of the story by expanding each paragraph into about one page, to give me an even closer level of the story. Then I make yet another set of character descriptions. These ones will contain everything I know about them, from head to hoof. Then I make a spreadsheet list of scenes. That way I can add whether I'm going to foreshadow something or not, or a bunch more details that can be worked in very well.Finally, I make a description of each scene, and then I can actually start writing.EDIT: Forgot to say where I am, I just finished the first character synopses and now I'm making my one-page description.

That sounds like so much work. Like, no thank you. So much effort for something that shouldn't require that much effort.

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That sounds like so much work. Like, no thank you. So much effort for something that shouldn't require that much effort.

It's not very much effort, really. I just need to put more time in it.

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Mammalia said
It's not very much effort, really. I just need to put more time in it.

But time is like gold.

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But time is like gold.

I have a lot of free time. I could be using it to speed through the process in a matter of days, but I want to read too.

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Mammalia said
I have a lot of free time. I could be using it to speed through the process in a matter of days, but I want to read too.

I just have no idea how people write without going straight from brain to paper.

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I just have no idea how people write without going straight from brain to paper.

I do go straight from brain to paper. I put all my ideas on paper. Once I have a scene description, then I know the gist of the scene and I can just go straight brain to paper.

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Mammalia said
I do go straight from brain to paper. I put all my ideas on paper. Once I have a scene description, then I know the gist of the scene and I can just go straight brain to paper.

So you go brain-scene-paper. Paper being the final copy.

[Mammalia]

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So you go brain-scene-paper. Paper being the final copy.

Yeah. With the method I'm using, it'll be absurdly easy to revise the plans with any new ideas that hit me. The spreadsheet will help with organising foreshadowing and getting rid of plot holes and tying plot threads together. I can put brain directly to paper when I do the scene description and yet again when I make the actual scene. It's very flexible.

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Mammalia said
Yeah. With the method I'm using, it'll be absurdly easy to revise the plans with any new ideas that hit me. The spreadsheet will help with organising foreshadowing and getting rid of plot holes and tying plot threads together. I can put brain directly to paper when I do the scene description and yet when I make the actual scene. It's very flexible.

But that's not brain to paper. Brain to paper means what you write is your final copy.

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But that's not brain to paper. Brain to paper means what you write is your final copy.

No one should ever do that. Brain straight to paper for a final copy will never make a good final copy. It'll look like a rambling first draft. Blargh.

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Mammalia said
No one should ever do that. Brain straight to paper for a final copy will never make a good final copy. It'll look like a rambling first draft. Blargh.

I beg to differ. I literally can't go through a planning phase; it doesn't work. I've never written a single thing about MR, except for like three character summaries on the wiki that I don't even read.

[Mammalia]

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I beg to differ. I literally can't go through a planning phase; it doesn't work. I've never written a single thing about MR, except for like three character summaries on the wiki that I don't even read.

Different people will have different methods that work for them, then. Planning is working for me, it doesn't work for you. I'll have to take that as the end answer. xD

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Mammalia said
Different people will have different methods that work for them, then. Planning is working for me, it doesn't work for you. I'll have to take that as the end answer. xD

In school, I've had essays go bad because they force me to go back and "revise" it DX

But it's turning out alright.

[Mammalia]

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In school, I've had essays go bad because they force me to go back and "revise" it DXBut it's turning out alright.

What is?

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Mammalia said
What is?

The story so far.

[Mammalia]

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The story so far.

Whose story?

Also: One-page plot summary
You can comment on specific sections of the summary within the document, if you don't want them here.

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Mammalia said
Whose story?Also: You can comment on specific sections of the summary within the document, if you don't want them here.

Your story =P
But it's fine.

[Mammalia]

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Your story =PBut it's fine.

:D
So if you have any critique, please do post with it.

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Mammalia said
:DSo if you have any critique, please do post with it.

Okah, I will. I'll read it in about five minutes.

[Mammalia]

So I just did a word filter thing so now whenever Dark says a bad word poof it's replaced with something else. :D
EDIT: That extends to anywhere there's a bad word woo