writing

[redbird]

I seem to be making a patchwork quilt. Lots of bits, and I'll fit them together later.

The weird part isn't that--for all I know, that's how everyone writes novels. The weird part is jumping out of bed to grab paper and pen, because I've thought of something for the novel after I turned the computer and the lights off. The weird part is waking up thinking of the novel.

I don't know if it's going to be any good, but it's going to be.

Comments

Patchworks

[webbob.livejournal.com]

Probably not everybody writes novels the same way, but it appears from what I've read that some successful writers of novels take the quilt approach you are taking.

My own incomplete attempts have varied between linear and patchwork and both seem to have worked pretty well up to the points where I decided what I was doing was crap and stopped. I think that patchwork will leave a lot of work until late in the process (like minnehaha B's shuffling chapters around) but give you a chance to arrange the scene pieces with hindsight.