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owlI don't know whether it's the sheer perversity of life, or something psychological, but I seem to write much more when I've got a job or something to do. Perhaps it's because the frontbrain is occupied, leaving the unconcious to to what it likes. I've fished out an old Doctor Who fic I'd abandoned last year and I've written two pages more of it. Perhaps I'll have it done before the new series starts.
The way I write in Doctor Who is quite different to the way I write in Star Wars or Harry Potter. There, I usually have an idea of what the ending is going to be, and even chunks of the dialogue, verbatim. With Doctor who, I start to write without much idea of where I'm going at all, and just let the story wander on. It seems to have worked so far, but it does produce some rather odd fics. The current one is turning out to be one of those bizarre ones where you perceive the constructs of your own subconscious images of what you're expecting to see. (I've expressed that badly; does anyone understand it?) I thought I could never write anything like that. Oh, well, it's stretching me as a writer!
The way I write in Doctor Who is quite different to the way I write in Star Wars or Harry Potter. There, I usually have an idea of what the ending is going to be, and even chunks of the dialogue, verbatim. With Doctor who, I start to write without much idea of where I'm going at all, and just let the story wander on. It seems to have worked so far, but it does produce some rather odd fics. The current one is turning out to be one of those bizarre ones where you perceive the constructs of your own subconscious images of what you're expecting to see. (I've expressed that badly; does anyone understand it?) I thought I could never write anything like that. Oh, well, it's stretching me as a writer!
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Date: 2006-04-04 09:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-04 09:13 pm (UTC)I think they're all in there.
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Date: 2006-04-04 09:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-05 06:36 am (UTC)It happens to you, too! LOL! I can never write during holidays or long weekends but give me a deadline in the office and then I suddenly turn out 3 chapters of 6000 words each - before I get down to my job. It happened a lot in school. I only seemed to want to write during exams. Go figure. Maybe it does have something to do with the front brain but I think that it's due to the perversity of life. :D
With Doctor who, I start to write without much idea of where I'm going at all, and just let the story wander on. It seems to have worked so far, but it does produce some rather odd fics.
Well, Doctor Who is odd. ;) Funny thing - I haven't watched any of the new shows and I still think of Tom Baker as the definitive Dr Who for some reason. *shrugs* It looks like the new shows are really popular.
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Date: 2006-04-05 08:48 pm (UTC)no subject
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