Lessons in Plot

[scribblemyname]

For those of you who are relatively new to me, plotting is not. my. thing.

At all.

I can plot you an emotional arc like no tomorrow, but throw in external goals and a bunch of them conflicting, and my head hits the desk and the fic takes literally years to write, even if it ends up quite good in the end.

This is why my collab rework and trovia's fic are not yet done. Because I'm actually working hard on them and I'm having to plot.

I finally figured out I'll probably get further by plotting out the emotional arc, but the first one kind of requires I hammer out all the kinks in the external one.

I've been busy intentionally learning from my writing process on exchange fics and that includes plot. As I figure out what I'm doing on these, I'll proably post more.

Comments

[hiddencait.livejournal.com]

Man fanfic and exchange fics in particular are amazing for me for the learning curve. They definitely let me stretch my writer wings somehow. I think because there isn't the sense of "professional" pressure that I sometimes get with the originals I plan to publish or get paid for.

[scribblemyname]

And I'm the opposite. I can't always make myself do something because I want to, but give me a deadline and someone waiting on it and I can. I need that pressure.