And guess what grade I got for A Level English? Yes - D! Spooky! *Twilight Zone music*
I think I was very lucky to have teachers who picked up on my enjoyment of writing (and let me get away with reading books in class when I should have been, oh, doing my Maths *g*) and encouraged me.
they are like films in my head. I can go to any part and it's like I'm watching it play back - and if I am thinking of writing anything I just let it play out in my mind. Yes! Me too - and you know, I think this is partly why I have trouble writing about the way the characters are feeling. Because I'm essentially recording / narrating what I see happening in my head. I know how they're feeling, but it feels odd to put that down on paper along with the 'action'.
You know, how I got the idea for "Tigers on Vaseline" was that I was playing an argument scene between Gene and Sam for another fic (the looooong one) through in my head, but then Gene suddenly went off-script and came out with the bit about Sam not existing according to Hyde. *g* Couldn't use that in that fic, but I liked the idea, so turned it into something else altogether :-)
Sometimes I can set up things and the thing writes itself. Yes, that's the kind of thing I mean when I say the ideas unfold. Like, I start at a certain point and the story kind of generates itself from there.
It's taken my years to get a writing style that is natural, and I'm still working on it. I reckon that's one of those things that's always a work in progress! Certainly is for me.
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branchandroot
Re: Writing Pt 2
Date: 2006-04-25 09:50 pm (UTC)*Twilight Zone music*
I think I was very lucky to have teachers who picked up on my enjoyment of writing (and let me get away with reading books in class when I should have been, oh, doing my Maths *g*) and encouraged me.
they are like films in my head. I can go to any part and it's like I'm watching it play back - and if I am thinking of writing anything I just let it play out in my mind.
Yes! Me too - and you know, I think this is partly why I have trouble writing about the way the characters are feeling. Because I'm essentially recording / narrating what I see happening in my head. I know how they're feeling, but it feels odd to put that down on paper along with the 'action'.
You know, how I got the idea for "Tigers on Vaseline" was that I was playing an argument scene between Gene and Sam for another fic (the looooong one) through in my head, but then Gene suddenly went off-script and came out with the bit about Sam not existing according to Hyde. *g* Couldn't use that in that fic, but I liked the idea, so turned it into something else altogether :-)
Sometimes I can set up things and the thing writes itself.
Yes, that's the kind of thing I mean when I say the ideas unfold. Like, I start at a certain point and the story kind of generates itself from there.
It's taken my years to get a writing style that is natural, and I'm still working on it.
I reckon that's one of those things that's always a work in progress! Certainly is for me.