I'm writing a fantasy, I write the narrative and figure things out as I go. I find that the more I think about what is ahead in the story, the harder it is to write.
I find that I'm writing the story to myself, so I've noticed that I'm writing things - in the narrative voice - that I know don't belong in a finished/reader facing text, so that I can find out what's in the story. For example, my character is going to take classes in 'charm making' - normally a trade, but there is a school of this art at the Royal College. She's just met with an administrator and I got the names of two of the charm-making classes from that. But it's really a 'so what?' kind of scene - what it does to advance the story is negligible, and I've had a good number of passages like this recently, that I'm pretty sure will be re-arranged into a more efficient story next version, but it's helping me get a more firm grip on how the story is developing.
I know it doesn't matter *how* I or others do it, as long as what I'm doing works for me. I'm just wondering if anyone else does it like this. It's fairly slow going for me, at least, but it's better than no going at all...
I find that I'm writing the story to myself, so I've noticed that I'm writing things - in the narrative voice - that I know don't belong in a finished/reader facing text, so that I can find out what's in the story. For example, my character is going to take classes in 'charm making' - normally a trade, but there is a school of this art at the Royal College. She's just met with an administrator and I got the names of two of the charm-making classes from that. But it's really a 'so what?' kind of scene - what it does to advance the story is negligible, and I've had a good number of passages like this recently, that I'm pretty sure will be re-arranged into a more efficient story next version, but it's helping me get a more firm grip on how the story is developing.
I know it doesn't matter *how* I or others do it, as long as what I'm doing works for me. I'm just wondering if anyone else does it like this. It's fairly slow going for me, at least, but it's better than no going at all...