Thread: If a world was three times as large as Earth, how long would a day be?
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Old 12-29-2010, 07:54 PM   #61
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Originally Posted by queentess View Post
You, the author, don't know how it's going to end? How do you know which clues to drop to the readers along the way? How do you keep on track with the story? Have you plotted it out at all?

I don't want to sound like a Debbie Downer, but it's pretty much a guaranteed let-down when I read books that haven't been properly plotted. I want to see a story that is so seamless that it's clear the author wasn't outlining as he went.
When I started by outlining a book, I became instantly bored with it and no longer wanted to write the story. Now I find out what's happening as the book develops. It's much more fun for me as a writer that way. Actually, I'm really having a blast with the writing and not knowing what's going to happen next.

I do numerous edits and one of them specifically goes toward lining up details to make everything mesh.
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