SCIENCE! · 3:09pm Nov 22nd, 2012
All right, so my latest fic is quite the departure from my usual work.
I decided to flex my high-speed creativity muscles a little, and produce some short pieces in MINIMAL time with ZERO pre-planning, working from prompts provided by others moments before I started writing.
One person provides two characters upon which the story will focus, and another provides a setting in which it will take place. One hour later, a short story is complete.
So far, the results of these little mental sprints by myself and the others have been... surprisingly good!
This isn't something I would do all the time, and I certainly have plenty of long-form, planned-out, not-ludicrous fiction in the works, but as an experiment in how quickly I can produce a narrative that makes anything resembling sense, I think this has been very interesting.
Do these short stories make me look like I have finally traded reason for madness?
Do you all actually want to see (gasp) MORE of this sort of thing from me?
Are any of you tempted to try this insanity yourselves, now?
Chimmycherry, or Cherrychanga?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Screw "inquiring minds".
Inquiring tongues demand a taste, irregardless of the name!
And now I'm off to read those stories of your's.
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Let me put it like this:
Not the most demanding or deep reading I have ever done, but they are entertaining stories and I'd like to read more.
*sees title*
*must read*
Nope, they're actually pretty interesting.
Sure, why not?
A bit, yes...
I find the idea interesting, cus it's completely the opposite from how I usually work. I may do my FIRST draft fairly quickly, but I'll often take my sweet time ironing things out, and even then I usually only get it to the point of "doesn't sound retarded" on the first try and need to do quite a few rewrites of paragraphs and correction
The aspect of this that inruige me the most is that you need to make kind of a thightly-woven fic pretty much by the seat of your pants, and that sounds like an enviroment where characters can really surprise you.
Like the conclusion might be soemthing entirely different fro mwhat you expect cus it emerged organically trough writing.
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I agree on ALL of those points.
This is a MASSIVE change to my usual writing habits, and having to maintain roughly 22-25wpm for a solid hour WHILE trying to assemble a narrative is a fascinating experience. You do, indeed, have to let the characters do whatever they want to do. There's no time to argue with them.
I strongly recommend this as a form of practice to any and all fic writers. It's a wild old time.
I actually enjoyed that quite a bit....
And Chimmycherrychanga.
I think you're the only one that actually KEEPS to the hour long time span. I leaked so much other the time limit I made a small lake. A lake of time... that spilled over the bathtub.
Also there is no science in this blog post. If you had some for science all you would have is an empty plate of dissapoint and words. Why must you lie to the people, Saddles? Why?