Zumbador on Nostr: Thinking about writing process. I'm a very big world builder / planner / outliner, ...

Thinking about writing process.
I'm a very big world builder / planner / outliner, often spending months planning before I start writing.

But then I inevitably deviate from that plan once the story starts flowing.

it's as if the planning phase is like an archaeologist in their office, figuring out where the hidden mosaic might be, and speculating about what it might look like. And the writing is like being on site, uncovering the story-mosaic, and finding that it's quite different from what you guessed in the planning stage.

Or, the planning stage is like creating a trap for the story-beast, constructing it according to how you think that beast might be. What bait would attract it, what snares would entrap it?

And the writing is finding that story-beast dubiously snuffling around the trap, and realising that you don't need to trap it after all. It's willing to talk to you, if you're patient enough to listen.

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