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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull)#WritersCoffeeClub 3/25. Describe your workflow if it had to be 100% analog.
I'm sure I can remember how to write. (joke)
Since I'm a #writeOnce pantser who edits as he goes, putting the words down on paper would be just as easy but there would be a lot of corrections as I went along.
But that's fine.
Or I could use a typewriter like I did for my first two books, remembering to use carbon paper so I have two copies.
It would take longer.
#WordWeavers 7/12. What's the earliest version of your stories that you allow others to see?
I write once, start to end, no revisions, no rewrites (apart from a pass for grammar/spelling), all my readers are essentially getting the first and only draft.
I was just looking at my WIP-in-waiting CAT PEOPLE (prequel to MONSTERS) that I wrote a portion of during Nano'23, and here's a completely raw extract.
Joan GreyI ... I'm typically a #WriteOnce author. I don't really do "second drafts". I do so much of my planning and plotting before-hand, that there's not much to edit other than checking for typoes, weird bits of characterization, and other 'clean up' sorts of things.
My method is not for everyone, though!
Unusually, my current novel has three! I'm usually a #WriteOnce author, but this blasted novel has not worked until I figured out the key. I will be starting over on Monday and I anticipate I'll be back to one-and-done again. Phew!
@adaddinsane @sfwrtr @allisonwyss
I #WriteOnce. I know where my story is going pretty much from the beginning. (This is helped by the fact that I'm a heavy plotter, of course.)
But also, I just know where I'm going and what I want to have happen (and what the characters need to do to *make* that happen.)
I'm doing editing and alpha reading for a friend writing his first novel, and wow, is his process different. He's a WriteManyTimes sort of dude. It's startling what a difference it makes. 1/3
Writing Wonders Day 3/31. Have you ever written alternative endings for yourself?
...nope.
Seems like a waste of time to me, when I could be writing the next book.
I do usually have a vague idea of the end, so I have a direction to head, but even that can change.
My best example of that is when I pantsed a 100K crime thriller with a twist ending I didn't see coming. And it was perfect.
My book REBEL DRAGON is now at #20 in Amazon's UK Fantasy chart, once again zipping past the Return of the King.
I'm sure the natural order will re-assert itself in a day or so, but it's always nice .
And I have 438 reviews/ratings averaging 4.5*. Plus a 60% readthrough to the rest of the series.
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist@adaddinsane @JoanGrey @allisonwyss So I can join the club! Yay!
As for the novel rewrites, I'm doing one in a microcosm. I found a compelling novelette I wrote in another medium and have started adapting it to the #sff universe I #amwriting for commercial release. If you've being following my responses to writing wonders, this one will star my #antagonist Rainy Days as the #protagonist in 1st person. So far it's a lot of transcription and translation, but some parts simply won't work and will have to be reimagined. Not sure if that's #writeOnce or not. 😇