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commodorifiedSo a shocking amount of writing advice I've encountered is about cutting the excess away, and this has rarely been my problem.
I tend to produce first drafts so condensed as to be downright gnomic, and then show them to friends who are kind enough to be informatively bewildered at me until I unpack.
Related to this, I always said I don't outline, at least outside my head. It occurs to me that my first drafts ARE outlines, really. Just, I outline in actual paragraphs.
Huh. That's an oddly useful insight.
In other news I forget where I recently saw someone comment that you can tell the difference between bad allergies and a cold because colds are PAINFUL, but that, sadly, is also very useful information right now.
I tend to produce first drafts so condensed as to be downright gnomic, and then show them to friends who are kind enough to be informatively bewildered at me until I unpack.
Related to this, I always said I don't outline, at least outside my head. It occurs to me that my first drafts ARE outlines, really. Just, I outline in actual paragraphs.
Huh. That's an oddly useful insight.
In other news I forget where I recently saw someone comment that you can tell the difference between bad allergies and a cold because colds are PAINFUL, but that, sadly, is also very useful information right now.
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Date: 2015-12-01 03:17 pm (UTC)I have to be careful if I put down notes or outline or whatever, because sometimes my brain decides "Well, you've written that already, so we're done with that."