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Ask Me Anything December: Dec. 30
Dec. 30th, 2018 02:40 pmI have no idea what number this is any more.
For the Ask Me Anything December meme: Do you visualize scenes when/before you write them? Or do you go by how the words sound in your head? Both? Something else entirely?
In most cases I have visualized the scenes in my head before I write them, only the translation between my brain and the written word usually shifts slightly in the telling. About 30% of the time in the Very Important Scenes, the dialogue I sounded out in my head survives intact, but the other 70% I’d say that the gist remains even as the wording shifts to sound/feel better as the written word.
For “filler” scenes (where I know I need to get from point A to point B but haven’t spent months obsessing about the dialog) I tend to make it up as I go along – this usually works as I know the characters pretty well by this point in the writing process.
For the Ask Me Anything December meme: Do you visualize scenes when/before you write them? Or do you go by how the words sound in your head? Both? Something else entirely?
In most cases I have visualized the scenes in my head before I write them, only the translation between my brain and the written word usually shifts slightly in the telling. About 30% of the time in the Very Important Scenes, the dialogue I sounded out in my head survives intact, but the other 70% I’d say that the gist remains even as the wording shifts to sound/feel better as the written word.
For “filler” scenes (where I know I need to get from point A to point B but haven’t spent months obsessing about the dialog) I tend to make it up as I go along – this usually works as I know the characters pretty well by this point in the writing process.