My friend (and former publisher) Lori Lake calls that hybrid between being a pantser and an outliner a panty-liner. Good joke. It's how I write too. I do have an outline of major points (I use Blake Snyder's Save the Cat outline, but I let the characters dictate how we get there. I'm 2/3rds the way through my next novel right now. And I appreciate your honesty in how it is to attempt such a feat. (And mine is not deep, but still...) Much love to you.
Thanks Robyn and good luck. Remember if you can do it once you can do it again. Usually : ) Hey don't answer if you don't want to. "I self-published Fair Game in 2023 after a couple years of unsuccessfully querying agents." Were you ever asked for the full ms? Did they ever get back at all? I ask because too many pro's have told me no and no. Something's not quite right.
Update: I am totally astounded by the amount of time I can spend at my computer doing all the things except writing this novel. Like, is there a world record for writing procrastination? My husband asks me what I did this morning and I have no fucking idea, except that I did not write.
Sounds familiar:-) Eudora Welty said, "Every story teaches me how to write it but not the one that comes after it." Which--after more than forty years of writing novels--is one of the few things I know for sure. Keep at it!
OMG. How cool is that! I saw her read once. She was quite old and sat on the stage with her turquoise pocketbook on her lap. But when she started reading, it was as if she were twenty. "Why I Live at the PO." My favorite. It wasa fabulous.
My friend (and former publisher) Lori Lake calls that hybrid between being a pantser and an outliner a panty-liner. Good joke. It's how I write too. I do have an outline of major points (I use Blake Snyder's Save the Cat outline, but I let the characters dictate how we get there. I'm 2/3rds the way through my next novel right now. And I appreciate your honesty in how it is to attempt such a feat. (And mine is not deep, but still...) Much love to you.
Thanks Robyn and good luck. Remember if you can do it once you can do it again. Usually : ) Hey don't answer if you don't want to. "I self-published Fair Game in 2023 after a couple years of unsuccessfully querying agents." Were you ever asked for the full ms? Did they ever get back at all? I ask because too many pro's have told me no and no. Something's not quite right.
Wow.
Update: I am totally astounded by the amount of time I can spend at my computer doing all the things except writing this novel. Like, is there a world record for writing procrastination? My husband asks me what I did this morning and I have no fucking idea, except that I did not write.
Sounds familiar:-) Eudora Welty said, "Every story teaches me how to write it but not the one that comes after it." Which--after more than forty years of writing novels--is one of the few things I know for sure. Keep at it!
OMG. How cool is that! I saw her read once. She was quite old and sat on the stage with her turquoise pocketbook on her lap. But when she started reading, it was as if she were twenty. "Why I Live at the PO." My favorite. It wasa fabulous.
It was, maybe, the late eighties when I saw her.