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Originally Posted by gmw
5-Sept: Another unexpected thing about writing was how powerful is the written word. While ideas were still just in my head they would swirl around and change and adapt, but once they appeared on the screen in front of me they took on a strange sort of permanence. Once the words were written they were reluctant to change in any but the most superficial manner. I've discovered the hard way that this is not always a good thing, an author does need to be able to say goodbye to those parts that don't work, but what I discovered was that saying goodbye to an already written word was much much harder than saying goodbye to an idea in my mind.
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For me, I feel more the opposite. It’s not necessarily when it’s on paper, but when it feels right in the mind that it becomes “fact” within my fiction. This is something I’ve felt many times. But for me, once the notion is there, it will stay until I’ve written it. And the more and more I think on it, it more it’ll feel right. Like with the ebook I just published. It was ALL permanent when I wrote it down, and all the times I proofread it. But guess what? Now that I’ve read a few critiques on here, and I’ve thought, “Okay, there were scenes that could be told better, or just cut out,” I immediately thought of the scene where Lance is looking for Nina at his school. There’re whole chunks that don’t need to be there. I’ve already sat down to start chopping out the boring parts (boring to me to read over, specifically), thinking of how to make the segment suspenseful instead. All because I mulled it over, and the feeling that it had to happen became stronger and stronger until finally I had to do it or I wouldn’t get any sleep. It’s like, once I get the notion that I
can do it, I already know that I
must do it. So I plan out how it would be best to do so, what can be taken out and the scene will still convey the same thing, and just make it more fun to read.