Single Sentence Post (Thinking Out Loud)

[snurri]

It occurs to me that part of the reason I rarely do Writing Porn-type posts is that my usual practice is Write First, Think Later.

Comments

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

You'll tell us when you get to the thinking part, right?

[snurri.livejournal.com]

OH SNAP NO YOU DIDN'T.

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

Um.

Writing Porn.

Do you wax hornAY on serifs?

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Writing Porn = Thinking out loud about process and technique and such.

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

I like mine better.

Break a leg tonight, sweet pea!

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[bondgwendabond.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm... my write porn stuff tends to be when I'm in pause mode. Or taking a breath because I just figured something out in revision (or in writing, which ain't that different for me, because I have to revise the hell out of everything). I wish I could think on the front end.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I think I'm similar, because I tend to feel like I'm figuring things out as I go along. Although Readercon got me thinking about a lot of different things, I'm just not that good at talking about them coherently.

[bondgwendabond.livejournal.com]

I find I think better when I'm typing, so sometimes I just make an entry and save it as a draft and never post it. There's something about the idea of having to articulate it so someone else can understand that forces me to dig into it more?

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I do this when I'm stuck on a chapter or something, and I brainstorm out a bunch of stuff. But it's usually difficult for me to make the leap from the micro of the specific scene or problem to any kind of macro idea about writing in general.