Writing in the head

Writing for me is having the premiere of a movie playing in my head - and I'm the only viewer. Puma

I agree. Sometimes, the process is intensely visual. I'll treat character formation almost as an interview Q & A process. I often outline whole stories or scenes in my head. When I physically sit down to write, it spills out quickly. Of course, I still have massive rewriting and editing to do, but I love that first foray into the story.

I've written in my head, but not too far in advance. I tend to do it as I go, if that makes sense--one sentence at a time. I also utilize visual images, but that is more pre-writing. I use music to stimulate the creative mojo and let it unfold kind of like a movie trailer.

I love reading about how others do it, though. Sometimes, if I'm struggling, trying on a new method "hat" helps considerably.

I evolve my story at night while I'm waiting for the sandman. Then next day I articulate the images I saw in my minds eye, in the dark. Yeah, weird, but that's how I've evoked the fictional world for eight of my twelve releases, the others came in dreams. I know, wacky, what can I say.

You write on a ship, in the toilet?

Huh. I thought only Patrick O'Brian did that.

Phaeal said:

You write on a ship, in the toilet?

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Beat me to it. As a former sailor, that was my first thought and I had to open the thread. Nothing like potty humor.

Phaeal said:

You write on a ship, in the toilet?

Huh. I thought only Patrick O'Brian did that.

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I thought this very same thing.