On keeping stuff - normally I'm a packrat too, and like to keep everything, but I tend to keep ideas or 'what ifs' rather than actual words. I'm terrible at letting go, so unless I actually delete what isn't working, I can't get free enough to write what does, if that makes sense. Would love to see the outtakes, though ;)
On seeing things - *g* I knew it! For me, I blame too much Buffy at an impressionable age, but I could block out the fight scenes in Bibula Harena in my head. If it had been a movie, I could have directed it. And someone once told me that they could see the camera angles in my stories, which I took as a compliment :) I think it's why I love love love having art for my stories - because for me, writing is as much visual as anything else, and the art just backs it up. My dialogue has to be more spontaneous, and early drafts are littered with John says, "You're worse than [something funny]" It's fine as well as I remember to edit them out...
My CM fic is tricky. I have A Point to make, but it's not about the characters, so they don't see the point of cooperating with me :S Once I give Reid an actual arc, he'll be happier, I'm sure.
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Date: 2009-02-04 09:14 pm (UTC)On seeing things - *g* I knew it! For me, I blame too much Buffy at an impressionable age, but I could block out the fight scenes in Bibula Harena in my head. If it had been a movie, I could have directed it. And someone once told me that they could see the camera angles in my stories, which I took as a compliment :) I think it's why I love love love having art for my stories - because for me, writing is as much visual as anything else, and the art just backs it up. My dialogue has to be more spontaneous, and early drafts are littered with John says, "You're worse than [something funny]" It's fine as well as I remember to edit them out...
My CM fic is tricky. I have A Point to make, but it's not about the characters, so they don't see the point of cooperating with me :S Once I give Reid an actual arc, he'll be happier, I'm sure.