Yes. I've found myself explaining to family and friends that I'm very much working on my 'in-process novel' even when I don't have a word count to back it up. I spend a lot of time mulling it about on the 'back-burner' so to say or Meta Blather as you put it. Then I'll put a phase of words onto paper, and then I'll go back to thinking it over again. To see what I've done, take a long look at it and see where it's going. In a way, to be inspired by what I've written and growing it from there.
Stories don't come full-born from my brain, and characters especially want more attention and want me to know them better than I can discover in a marathon of simply sitting at the keyboard typing out words.
Recently, I've decided that what I want to do for the present is write scenes about this or that, always developing and understanding the story better in past/present/future contexts--but acknowledging that probably 100% of what I'm writing will never be shared. I've found that this is also hard to explain to other people... but here you call it Alt Scenes. Exactly! It needs to be written, filed, and made a Reference.
I'd simply given it up to saying, "This is just how I do writing. And I like it this way." I'm intrigued to hear that it isn't so uncommon and I like how you call these stages of artistic creation: 'spaces.' I think I'm going to try defining it as such to my friends and families and see if they file this away as 'artistic oddity' and not 'Jillian's a slacker with nothing to show for her work.' :D
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Stories don't come full-born from my brain, and characters especially want more attention and want me to know them better than I can discover in a marathon of simply sitting at the keyboard typing out words.
Recently, I've decided that what I want to do for the present is write scenes about this or that, always developing and understanding the story better in past/present/future contexts--but acknowledging that probably 100% of what I'm writing will never be shared. I've found that this is also hard to explain to other people... but here you call it Alt Scenes. Exactly! It needs to be written, filed, and made a Reference.
I'd simply given it up to saying, "This is just how I do writing. And I like it this way." I'm intrigued to hear that it isn't so uncommon and I like how you call these stages of artistic creation: 'spaces.' I think I'm going to try defining it as such to my friends and families and see if they file this away as 'artistic oddity' and not 'Jillian's a slacker with nothing to show for her work.' :D