Ask me anything Double Take - General and Writing

[sandy79]

Call me a lemming, but since half (or more) of my flist is already doing it, I thought I should join in too.

Ask Me Anything (goes both general and writing)


and as little incentive to ask, here's a bonus Bomer:

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[sandy79.livejournal.com]

Finding the right way into the story. In more than one case, I spent the better part of writing the whole story at the prologue. There's always a little battle in me between jumping right into the action, so to speak, and a slower approach. Depending on what kind of story I'm writing, I choose one way or the other. And sometimes I delete the whole prologue and start anew, this time from a different angle (has happened with "The Spy Who Loved Me". The first version of the teaser was way closer to one scene from "Out of the Box" than what you got to read in the end.)

Another thing that sometimes has me struggling is finding the right voice for the characters. I try to keep them as close to what we see on the show as possible, and that is sometimes a very difficult task. And if the story I write is set in a different timeline, well, that problem multiplies itself.

On the other hand, there is one thing that I find quite easy, compared to other things - endings. I usually have a general image of what the ending should look like in my head, so it's more of finding the right way to achieve that goal than anything else.


what about you??

[elrhiarhodan]

Sometimes it's just getting started. There's the fear of the "blank page" - that the story sounds better in my head than on the screen. Also, lately, it's the fear that the story will never end - I'll just keep writing and writing and writing and saying nothing.

But once I get started, the words really do flow.