Hello all and thanks for welcoming me when I wrote as Tetsuo (I was still experiencing the board and didn't know how to register, just threw a name)
My question concerns the act of writing, so anyone who writes and/or is interested in analysing stories is welcome to comment.
I was wondering if Mr. Moorcock uses any kind of set up system to write his stories. Do you know the end, or the basic structure of the story before you start writing Mr. Moorcock? Do you develop a basic structure and then add scenes to it? Or do you write straight from the gut, just getting a starting premise?
Having writen so many books, and always keeping a remarkable level of quality, I imagine you are by now quite confident and you probably already have a reliable work system to go through when you sit at your word processor and start your work.
I am currently reading several books on writing, and many of them actually dissect story weaving to a very mechanical, and not intuitive at all, process of creating scenes that have to start with a positve point and end in a negative (or the other way round), characters that have certain specific traits, archetipes, story formats (classic format, internal/psychological format/mini plots, anti plots.... They number and pigeonhole stories with all types of names).
So, the question is: how do you, in your writing, sets up your stories, from the beginning to the end? Is it something new that you start from scratch? Do you make a small synopsis of it to follow before starting, perhaps a whole treatment of several pages? Do you just write a premise? Do you break scenes into a gradual climax or plot points which you know are gonna happen like this or that? Do you develop characters, their habits, looks and life, before writing about them?
Any comments on the workings, mechanics, rituals and structures of story writing you, or anyone else here have, are welcome.
My question concerns the act of writing, so anyone who writes and/or is interested in analysing stories is welcome to comment.
I was wondering if Mr. Moorcock uses any kind of set up system to write his stories. Do you know the end, or the basic structure of the story before you start writing Mr. Moorcock? Do you develop a basic structure and then add scenes to it? Or do you write straight from the gut, just getting a starting premise?
Having writen so many books, and always keeping a remarkable level of quality, I imagine you are by now quite confident and you probably already have a reliable work system to go through when you sit at your word processor and start your work.
I am currently reading several books on writing, and many of them actually dissect story weaving to a very mechanical, and not intuitive at all, process of creating scenes that have to start with a positve point and end in a negative (or the other way round), characters that have certain specific traits, archetipes, story formats (classic format, internal/psychological format/mini plots, anti plots.... They number and pigeonhole stories with all types of names).
So, the question is: how do you, in your writing, sets up your stories, from the beginning to the end? Is it something new that you start from scratch? Do you make a small synopsis of it to follow before starting, perhaps a whole treatment of several pages? Do you just write a premise? Do you break scenes into a gradual climax or plot points which you know are gonna happen like this or that? Do you develop characters, their habits, looks and life, before writing about them?
Any comments on the workings, mechanics, rituals and structures of story writing you, or anyone else here have, are welcome.
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