I hate Plotting. I’m sure I hate it simply because I find it difficult to do, but truly, that’s little comfort when the times come that I have to plot something. Part of me is sure that I’ll get the hang of it in the future. I mean, I used to hat having a set schedule in my life, and now I love it. I love knowing what hours I’m going to work on what days. What days I’m going to wrokout and what days are my days off. However, when it comes to my free time, I still refuse to plot it out.
But writers plot. Or so they tell me.
I’m not a writer that sits at the computer every day and writes for however many hours or pages. then has free time to do what they want. Me, I do what I want almost all the time. It’s one of the perks of being single. If I don’t want to write. I don’t. However, there are times when I want to write, and I can’t.
It’s been said, that this is when plotting comes in handy. That you know what to write, if you have an outline or a synopsis to follow. I can sorta understand that. My problem is, when I know what’s going to happen next, I’m too bored to write about it. I like being surprised by what my characters do next. I figure if I’m suprised then you, the reader, will be surprised too.
But how am I ever going to sell on proposal if I can’t plot a story??
So, I’ll be plotting for the next few hours. It’s almost midnight here, and I like it at night when I ‘m not as easily distracted by emails and chats. Cuz really, I do love to surf the internet and chat, and I have no will power most of the time.
Speaking of which, I had my first author chat at Romance Junkies. It went very well, I shared the time with Jacki King, andother AQP author, and it was her first chat too. Hopefully the one tonite at Fallen Angel Reviews will go just as good! So if anyone feels the need to procrastinate or chat…please drop by the Fallen Angels chatroom between 9 and 10 pm EST tonight (Wednesday) and say HI!! I’d love to see some familiar faces.
Why is it that when we really enjoy doing something there is almost always a part of it that we don’t like to do? Go figure!
Why is it that when we really enjoy doing something there has to be a part of it that we don’t like to do? Go figure. 😎
I guess because life would just be too damn good otherwise. 😉
Sasha, I plot a little, but tend to stray from my outline with regularity. I think it’s there just in case I REALLY get stuck. Otherwise, I stick with Stephen King’s advice and excavate. 😀
Are you suppossed to plot things out?!? :O Just kiddin’ Seriously, though, I kinda know where my story is going before I write but I always have a much clearer picture of who the characters are. They are the ones who decide what the plot is. When I write I’m schizo or multi personality. How do you plot a story before you write for your characters long enough to get to know them? I can’t do it, that’s for sure. I gotta get at least three or four scenes of characters interacting brefore I can plan where I want them to go. Am I the only one like this?
:confused: I’m stuck in the land of having to submit whole manuscripts never a proposal. Oh well at least, Sasha, we’re not alone. :satisfied:
I don’t like to plot but I can pretend enough to write a synopsis. I leave the middle part real vague! :hehe:
Exactly it Suzanne. I thinkI’ll just have to sort of uhmmm bs my way through it. 😛
Plot? Whassat? I’ve TRIED to do it, and I can even write a darned good synopsis at about chapter three. However, by the end of the book, it looks totally different from the synopsis. 🙂 I’m only about 30 pages over at the moment, and this book is still doing things I didn’t plan!
I hate plotting too so I feel your pain, Sasha. :crazy: