There are times when you just have to write. Last night a scene came to me out of the blue, and I just had to write it down because otherwise I would probably have forgotten it. So, around midnight, I ended up writing about 900 words of dialogue between the two main characters in the book that is my first attempt at fiction.
I am finding that I am not writing the story from start to finish in one go, in that while I have the story in mind, a beginning, middle, and end, things tend to change as I go along. Then ideas for inclusion at any point in the story just tend to come to me. I start at the beginning of course, but at some stage, what I have already written, may need a re-write to include the new ideas. Seems like an anarchic way of doing things, but that is the way that I write. I suppose it is just the way that my mind works. It doesn't give me the whole story from the start!
That's what happened last night. The dialogue I wrote will be included in a later chapter that I am still some way off from writing. The scene is written now, and other than the inevitable editing, it is waiting to be included in that chapter, whenever I get to it.
As for my WIPs, I have two, one fiction, the other non-fiction. I last wrote fiction when I was at school, years ago. To be honest, I think I was rubbish at writing then. I hope that I have improved. Isn't self-doubt a terrible thing? I suppose it is better than overconfidence.
Writing fiction is a challenge. Have I got the imagination to world build? I didn't have it when I was at school, but age brings its own benefit of having read and seen many things.
If I had to describe the story that I am writing, it would be a Science fiction thriller, with political intrigue, and a touch of romance, but only a touch. It is set a few years in the future, so the world building is not so difficult, but the science bit is.
Progress so far.
WIP One (not including last night's effort.).
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WIP Two (Non-Fiction. Less of a priority).
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