It's a Start

[ithildin]

I've written about a 1000 words of a new 'Emily' story. So far it's pretty much all dialogue. I'll go back after and 'embroider', as I call it. That seems to be the way I tend to write -- conversation first, then the descriptive stuff. I get on a roll writing dialogue to the exclusion of pretty much everything else. Does anyone else do that, or am I just weird? (yeah, there's a question!) Though, I remember reading some thread somewhere a while back, where a lot of the participants said they didn't like descriptive stuff in their fanfic. I always worry I don't put enough in. But maybe I put too much. Do you like descriptions in your fanfic? I do, to a certain extent. I don't want Anne Rice style pages and pages of description, but I do like some.

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[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Her hair was long and red and reminded me of that sunset I saw when I was seven and my grandma died, and have I mentioned the rosy fingered dawn?

LOL!!! Oh god, I hope I don't do that! I don't, do I? [angsts]

I'm very visual as well. It's like a little movie unspooling in my head.

[jinxed-wood.livejournal.com]

LOL!!! Oh god, I hope I don't do that! I don't, do I? [angsts]

No need to angst, honeybun, you write the best sort of prose, to my mind, the kind you don't notice because it's part of the flow of the story.

I'm very visual as well. It's like a little movie unspooling in my head.

When I wrote my first fic, Hamlet's Ghost, I had a fabulous beta reader, who gently pointed out to me that I didn't have to describe every single action my characters made! I would verge on the ridiculous sometimes, even decribing the way someone holds a glass, which is okay if it's pertinent to the story, but if it's not...

Fine Art background, I'm totally doomed...

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Good to hear :)

I think I have the opposite problem. Because I see it so clearly, I tend not t describe enough of it, and have to remind myself that the reader can't see my movie! [g]

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

Can you change 'camera angles' in your head when you visualise something so you can see it from a different perspective? I've found that being able to that can get a scene moving along that might have been causing problems.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, that's no problem :)

[dejla.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, yes. Isn't that the most fun? You can wander all around the scene and watch it happen from all the possible angles as well as know perfectly well what everyone is thinking at the same time!