Oh, I didn't mean to ask if you have a recs for rules on writing. I meant to ask if you think there should be one. I'm just curious to know what other writers think on that.
This is sort of begging the question (though in reverse). You've explained that you have a different method, and then want to know if there should be one method (if I'm reading you right). I don't think you'll find any writer who would suggest we should all work the same way.
However, I don't think writing long works, particularly inside a genre with fairly strict conventions, comes naturally to many. Writing is a skill much like other skills, and has to be learned. There is a series of myths about writing that tell us that it's somehow the result of some kind of vague notion of "talent" and less just about organization and hard work. This myth serves us all very badly. Beyond that, I'm sure we all come up with our own methods, and those may or may not help us get to an end result we can live with.
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This is sort of begging the question (though in reverse). You've explained that you have a different method, and then want to know if there should be one method (if I'm reading you right). I don't think you'll find any writer who would suggest we should all work the same way.
However, I don't think writing long works, particularly inside a genre with fairly strict conventions, comes naturally to many. Writing is a skill much like other skills, and has to be learned. There is a series of myths about writing that tell us that it's somehow the result of some kind of vague notion of "talent" and less just about organization and hard work. This myth serves us all very badly. Beyond that, I'm sure we all come up with our own methods, and those may or may not help us get to an end result we can live with.