[ SECRET POST #2753 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2753 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Getting back on the horse

[othellia]

I don't use a beta.

After general planning, I write a sort of paragraph summary of what I want to happen in the chapter.

Then I write whatever comes into my head. If it's not a complete sentence I put brackets around it. [insert more explanation of said bracket technique here] Or if I can't think of the right word, I put a bunch of slashes of similar words so that I remember the gist of what I wanted to say/get across/convey to the reader.

dialogue and dialogue tags are usually done all lower case with minimum punctuation because its easier to flow through the conversion that way; if i stop to worry about grammar, i lose my mental place and bam; there goes good dialogue lost for good

Then when that's done I take a day break or so. Then I go back and essentially flesh everything out. Internal character monologues, expanded dialogue, background details, the works. I'll usually go from about 2400 words a chapter to 4000 words a chapter during this. If I get stuck at any point, I leave it in the brackets and continue on with the chapter.

Then after a couple hours, another day, whatever. I go back and do a final reread. Usually I'll have one or two bracket sections left. I'll spend my time FINALLY correcting those. But at this point, we're talking about one or two 100 word sections in a mostly complete 4000+ word document. So the adrenaline of getting to post it helps me through.

I do a final ctrl+f for any remaining [] brackets, and then post away.