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cyberhorn
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rarely
a good idea tends to stick
when i do its usualy the names of charcters i want to write about and it acts as a recall device for what ive got stored up about them |
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Chris Regan
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| cyberhorn wrote: | rarely
a good idea tends to stick
when i do its usualy the names of charcters i want to write about and it acts as a recall device for what ive got stored up about them |
Yes cyberhorn it does but it is a pain when your muse won't let your mind rest. I find that my first draft of an idea I have to write down so that my mind unclogs for all the other ones to filter down.. 
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Yakoku Aekis
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*looks at his desk*
notes: 300+ pages
rewrites/abandoned concepts: everywhere nearly 2000+
i do take notes at the worst of times namly exams. But i never really use them ive memorised all my notes and storys but Mr Paul Lucas (author of Creatura) gave me some writing advice such as before writing create a detailed outline of the story and on write from that and his advice has helped me a lot as ive only abandoned one story so far this year then again that was doomed from the start.
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Chris Regan
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| Yakoku Aekis wrote: | *looks at his desk*
notes: 300+ pages
rewrites/abandoned concepts: everywhere nearly 2000+
i do take notes at the worst of times namly exams. But i never really use them ive memorised all my notes and storys but Mr Paul Lucas (author of Creatura) gave me some writing advice such as before writing create a detailed outline of the story and on write from that and his advice has helped me a lot as ive only abandoned one story so far this year then again that was doomed from the start. |
Notes! I have more notes that stories there are times my mind is running in over drive and I feel like I'm running to catch up but then I see them as a move clip.
Right now I'm working on taking the clips an weaving them into an outline of the full story, what a job that is I wish now I had done and out line first.
It is like taking different colors of yarn and tieing them together as you create a produced that weave two events that are tied by the smallest thread into a large tapestry of work and beauty.
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Nadan
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I don't just take notes. I proofread and do multiple drafts of my notes. I'm hopeless, I know.
But at least if I publish my notes (like I did for the Dual Blade Glossary and Dual Blade Compendium) they are easily accessable to my readers.
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Chris Regan
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| AnthonyTiger wrote: | I don't just take notes. I proofread and do multiple drafts of my notes. I'm hopeless, I know.
But at least if I publish my notes (like I did for the Dual Blade Glossary and Dual Blade Compendium) they are easily accessable to my readers. |
Notes! I re-write my notes, add thoughts and information to Bio's and story hooks all the time for when your writing a novel or story it is always evolving until the you get to the end..  
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DragonWolf_keny
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| Chris Regan wrote: |
Notes! I re-write my notes, add thoughts and information to Bio's and story hooks all the time for when your writing a novel or story it is always evolving until the you get to the end.. |
that they do, ever evolving! I'm currently hoping to publish some of my work. I've been going over my notes, and the files are getting huge. what was once a small fantasy world, has certainly gotten complicated. writing a collection of short works is gathering into a huge undertaking.
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Sigurd Volsung
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I have to keep notes because entire chapters happen out of sequence, in fact it's so bad that one of my current projects will be written as a plot line with a series of flash backs because of the things that came up while I was writing, otherwise nothing is going to come of it.
In the case of the two projects I'm currently working on, I have detailed notes for one and am working on the notes for the other simply because I'm having trouble keeping some things straight. My memory isn't the greatest.
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Virmir
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Pah! Notes!
I just write willy-nilly and hope it comes out semi-coherently. Of course, I've only done short stories thus far. Perhaps I should consider this if I ever hope to get anything longer accomplished.
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DragonWolf_keny
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continuity is not really such a problem as comprehension with me. I usually shy away from flashbacks and meanwhile else where's.
plus I tend to have characters suddenly being omnipotent and knowing events they had no witness to.
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