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jeph does your inability to control your story disturb you?

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tomart:
cyro, your metaphor sounds like what many authors say, and Thiefree, when I've tried to write, I get that scary feeling that my characters will hate what I do with (to) them, and There Will Be Suffering...

Thanks, jwhouk!  That was the Jeph quote I wanted to find, but couldn't - great insight into his process, and a fascinating gender difference..

mbelassie:

--- Quote from: snubnose on 19 Apr 2011, 23:51 ---Well, no.

Usually the author knows exactly where its going, and only creates an illusion of everything being natural.

To be able to make the story go as it goes naturally is a certain kind of luxury professional writers usually do not have.


--- End quote ---


'I start to write and have happen what would have to happen as it goes along.'
   - Ernest Hemingway

jwhouk:
And if it works for Hemingway, it'll work for Jeph.

Blyss:
I know this is probably going to sound strange, but I've never been aware of any other way to write.

Any attempt I've ever made, it felt like someone else was telling me the story, and I was just writing it down, typing it, whatever.

I don't know how else it would work, to be completely honest.
 
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Carl-E:
From what I understand (I don't write stories, I'm afraid), there are writers who know the plot and outcomes of their story beforehand, having a sort of outline of the events and order in which they happen.  Mystery writers especially need this sort of construct. 

Then the rest is filling in the gaps and fleshing out the details,  But again, many of this type of author say their characters "supply" things like the dialogue! 

It's Edison's equation - invention is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.  You see it in Jeph's work if you watch the stream - there's the 1% inspiration in what the characters will say or do, and the 99% perspiration in actually drawing them doing it! 

But if the 1% isn't there, the other 99% can be for naught. 

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