![]() you know, write.īRIAN – With this one, I didn’t add a substory because there’s so much action and great dialogue that adding anything beyond the design of Wombat’s environment might have cluttered things up too much or broken the flow of Carmen’s text. Now THAT is a wonderful process: change a word, rearrange the order, take out an unnecessary or distracting scene, add or remove a character, come up with a better ending. At some point within the next few hours or days, I return to it and decide whether it deserves to live. A wobbly, incoherent, and unlovable thing. The "first" draft is then written on my laptop. Once I've gathered a few notes, I hand-write the story in a very elemental form this is how I begin to grasp the slippery arc of the story. After that, I do research on the subject (whether for fiction or nonfiction). I know how ephemeral these flashes of inspiration can be. ![]() Every writer has their own process, of course, but here's mine: I'm usually struck by an incident or idea that strikes like a thunderbolt––and I write it down. CARMEN – The most difficult moment for me (in the writing process) is creating a first cohesive draft. ![]()
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