tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541335208145531499.post6130965257151903688..comments2023-06-26T06:14:18.058-05:00Comments on Lauren Gallagher and L. A. Witt: Writing Out of Sequence Without Scrambling Thy Brain Matter (Or 'How Some Scenes Are Like Stopping at a Rest Stop So Batman Can Pee')Lori W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00977774459484130567noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541335208145531499.post-45915029646595456292014-04-15T20:24:32.958-05:002014-04-15T20:24:32.958-05:00Hey, you and I were talking about this on Twitter!...Hey, you and I were talking about this on Twitter! I was grocery shopping with a toddler/tweeting, you'd just returned from London. ...I remember I was so excited to find you wrote out of sequence, because I do too! I was laughing, reading this post- it's exactly how I wrote my first book. First chapter fleshed out, then jumping around all over the place, writing pieces here and there as I saw it, leaving the hardest scenes till the end. The albatross around my neck was a menage sex scene. It was like pulling teeth! PAINFUL! But you're right the motivation was when I finished it, I was DONE! Thank you for this post. I'm a new writer, so I thought I sort of blundered around writing the first book and that I needed a system for the second. But I do have a system! Yay! I'm already naturally doing it again. ..begining fleshed out, hopping to other scenes. Here we go again! Hurray!Michele Millsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541335208145531499.post-20229863398595043532014-04-15T19:15:07.858-05:002014-04-15T19:15:07.858-05:00Brilliant blog post. Meat and fun - my favourite.
...Brilliant blog post. Meat and fun - my favourite.<br /><br />One of my reasons to write out of sequence are holes. I outline and write more or less sequentially. <br />But some scenes take research I haven't done yet, so I'll sketch them in to detail later.<br />And sometimes, there's something missing that I can't quite name yet (a motivation, a thematic tie in - this can be quite nebulous), and writing a later scene will *poof* magically make all the puzzle pieces fall into place. They always do, if that scene should be there. If they don't, there's something wrong.G.B.Gordonhttp://gordon.kontext.canoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541335208145531499.post-85246383845025450162014-04-15T15:57:13.176-05:002014-04-15T15:57:13.176-05:00I write out of sequence and I'm a pantser. If ...I write out of sequence and I'm a pantser. If a scene just isn't grabbing me to write it, or I'm stuck on it for some reason, I'll skip ahead (or backward) and write a different scene. Once my brain figures out how to write that one scene I got stuck on, then I go back to it. I don't outline, but I have an idea, however vague, as to where I want the story to go. The scenes don't come to me chronologically, so I don't write that way, but in the end I'm able to piece them all together. Some chapters or scenes may need a little rewriting, or a lot, or be dropped altogether. It's the way my mind works.K.E. Skedgellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09240290849300091706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541335208145531499.post-61119303389140403352014-04-15T14:29:08.916-05:002014-04-15T14:29:08.916-05:00I'm enjoying these posts of yours! :) They a...I'm enjoying these posts of yours! :) They are giving me ideas. I have a question though, a mechanical one. You say that outlining is very important to your process and I can see how and why and it makes an incredible amount of sense. But HOW do you do it? Whiteboard? Index cards? One of your ubiquitous spreadsheets? A notebook? Post-Its on the wall? Evainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607054595614293119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541335208145531499.post-51882049626430296102014-04-15T14:14:01.305-05:002014-04-15T14:14:01.305-05:00Wow! Another amazing post. You knocked this one ou...Wow! Another amazing post. You knocked this one out of the ball park. I never would have thought that I could use this method...but after reading this, I think I probably could! My favorite part? (Aside from the bathroom-happy Batman) was chapter 15 and 23 peer pressure. Oh yeah, I can see that! Those girls are serious! Thanks for a great post.<br />Evelyn / GailAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17058323480052887389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541335208145531499.post-49258962652610982432014-04-15T13:09:47.205-05:002014-04-15T13:09:47.205-05:00Now you have me wondering whether Batman has a pee...Now you have me wondering whether Batman has a pee flap built into his suit or if he has to take the whole damn thing off when he needs the bathroom.Misa Buckleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16571385607998323197noreply@blogger.com