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billscott: would you take a script writing class to hone the novel or story writing process? |
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billscott: What's more important in a story, if you had to choose only one....intrigue or suspense? |
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billscott: If faced with a choice to write a novel or blog for fun, which would it be? Why? |
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billscott: If computers were rendered useless, would you still be a writer? |
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billscott: Do you use feather and ink writing tools? |
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billscott: Scenario: A topic intrigues you for a story, its characters are full and lush in your mind, the storyline is fairly clear, you pen a partial outline. While all of it is fresh in your mind: do you check to see if the story is a Big Concept against today's news and hot headlines to see if its worth writing? or do you write it anyway, regardless of its overall appeal (or lack-there-of)? |
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billscott: Scenario: you have two plotlines from which to choose. One plot resembles a "hot topic", which might challenge your friendships OR the other topic is a bit toned down and you know will get "some" mild attention at best. Which one do you choose? |
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billscott: Self publishing or conventional publishing? Which one is better in your opinion? |
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billscott: if writing was your only way to make money...seriously, your only way...would you work for someone or yourself? And in what capacity? |
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billscott: When do you think your story, poem or novel is good enough for publishing? |
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If you really want to see your work in a different light, get it edited. I never knew how many mistakes I was making until I started getting my novel edited. - | ||
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billscott: How do you thoroughly plan your story? Is it in your head or on paper or on computer before you write it? |
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Those who write an extensive outline and know the tale from beginning to end before they start, and those who write a minimal outline as they go -- as ideas come to them. And then there are the "pantsers" who think of a situation, choose their characters, start and the beginning and work through to the end without an outline. I fall somewhere in the middle group, sometimes outlining a bit, but mostly not. - | ||
My best stories are ones where my muse hits me upside the head with a two by four, and I have to rush to write it all down. - | ||
I see members here calling for help with the end of a story. That's shit creek. You should have thought of that before you left the dock! Hmmm - I think I will sponsor a contest that will have to end with my direction. How about that? - | ||
Some people, by the way, write the end first, or they write the main scenes and then go back and fill in dialogue and more detail. Some love outlining, because if they wake up and feel like writing a fight scene (or a love scene) they know right where it goes in the story, and they skip ahead, write it, and polish later. - | ||
Thank you for talking about this topic. Awesome tips in there too. - | ||
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billscott: Who inspires you to write? |
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billscott: do you decide a plot based on a subject you like or with current events? |
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billscott: How do you "figure out" your characters? Do you use past experiences of your own and mix them in? Or do you completely make it all up? |
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If you begin with characters, then you find that you need to change them, as the story demands. And remember, they not only have to serve, they also have to entertain. - | ||
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billscott: after you have written your work, have you wondered what it might look like as a screenplay? or even written it yourself? or maybe someone wrote it out for you? |
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billscott: If you could be a fly on the wall of a famous author to see how they operate, write, market, interact with publishers, their fans, etc., whose wall would you be on? |
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billscott: Have you written more than one genre? Which one? If so, would you ever do so again? |
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He wrote using worms but for a more sinister purpose..I believe the series was called The War Against The Chtorr...Have you heard of it? - | ||
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billscott: When your written words hit the page, what leads you...the character(s), plot, theme, or central conflict? Or is it something else? |
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billscott: When inspiration strikes, do you write or outline your next writing project? |
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You touch upon aspects a very good author explains in his book called "Several Short Sentences About Writing" It talks similarly of what you explained. We all have our ways to get our "juices" going. That's the interesting part of writing. Rules? What rules? What inspires, inspires...what doesn't, just doesn't. I have read some of your material. Love it. Headin over for a deeper look if I may... Cheers! - | ||
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billscott: What is meditation? AT first when I thought about it, I thought it meant donning a robe and climbing to the top of a mountain and finding some guru to talk with. Of course that is a naive way to think about it, so I needed more of an example. A friend of mind introduced me to the idea and within 5 minutes we were done. All I remember was considering his ideas and being calm. And he said... Exactly, all you have to do is to change one aspect of what we just did. And that blew my mind... |
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billscott: If meditation was designed to work with what you do like and was specific to your intentions, would you use it? |
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billscott: What if meditation helped your writing...would you try it to find out? |
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billscott: All photos on any of my works are courtesy of google images in the public domain, unless indicated by FanArt contributions. |
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