So, when I read Barbara Stoney's biography of Enid Blyton a few weeks ago, I was very pleased to discover that Blyton wrote how I write. She terms it her "under-mind":
... My hands go down on my typewriter keys and I begin. The first sentence comes straight into my mind, I don't have to think of it. I don't have to think of anything. The story is enacted in my mind's eye almost as if I had a private cinema screen there ... I don't know what anyone is going to say or do. I don't know what is going to happen. I am in the happy position of being able to write a story and read it for the first time, at one and the same moment ...
I don't pretend to understand all this. To write book after book without knowing what is going to be said or done sounds silly - and yet it happens. Sometimes a character makes a joke, a really funny one, that makes me laugh as I type it on my paper - and I think, "Well, I couldn't have thought of that myself in a hundred years!" And then I think, "Well, who did think of it then?"
That pretty muchs sums up my writing process, but how do you write? Do you plan? Or do you have the under-mind?! -x-
Weirdly enough, I thought you would be more of a planner - I don't know why!
ReplyDeleteI don't even know WHAT I do, other than procrastinate!
It depends on the project. Sometimes I write out a whole outline of the book- chapter by chapter. Then there have been others that I just sit down and write. so I guess it is just my mood.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I plan and other times I just type or scribble away at an idea
ReplyDeleteIt depends. Usually I have a basic plan, and then I just start writing. I've tried planning the whole thing and it simply doesn't work. I like to have a basic idea of whats to happen, but the fun pat is writing and seeing where it will take me!
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