I don't know how I write. Mostly, I need an image, and everything else kind of builds around that. My dS Match fic, Frozen? Happened because I couldn't shake the image of Ray and Fraser dancing together and Fraser noticing how cold Ray's skin was. My most successful stories (ie the ones I can bear to go back and read) usually have a strong sense of 'place' - south of France, war-time London, the frozen north... If I don't have that it doesn't seem to work as well, which is why I spend as long as I do looking at photos and reading about locations.
As for 'missing scenes', I think I do have them. While my stories are complete in themselves, and mostly say what I want them to say, there are always bits and pieces that I don't show. Usually they get left out because they don't add anything to the story - there's nothing wrong with them, exactly, but they just feel like an indulgence, or like treading water. I also like to leave stories in a place where the reader can continue it how they wish - if they want to think that Fraser and Alex lived happily ever after (in Frozen), then that's fine. I didn't explicitly tell them that that's what happened, but I hopefully gave them enough clues to lead them to draw the conclusion I wanted them to. Um. If that makes sense...
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Date: 2009-02-04 07:53 pm (UTC)As for 'missing scenes', I think I do have them. While my stories are complete in themselves, and mostly say what I want them to say, there are always bits and pieces that I don't show. Usually they get left out because they don't add anything to the story - there's nothing wrong with them, exactly, but they just feel like an indulgence, or like treading water. I also like to leave stories in a place where the reader can continue it how they wish - if they want to think that Fraser and Alex lived happily ever after (in Frozen), then that's fine. I didn't explicitly tell them that that's what happened, but I hopefully gave them enough clues to lead them to draw the conclusion I wanted them to. Um. If that makes sense...