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[misscake]

Question: Writerly type people, do you always write linearly or do you sometime write a scene that will come much later in your story but is so vivid in your head that you must write it before it disappears

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[imaginarycircus]

I write linearly from start to finish. Occasionally I pause to adjust a scene, but that's going back not forwards.

Ow. Your poor foot! D:

[misscake]

The reason I ask is that I have a fic idea in my head but right now, it's a lot of scenes loosely related and I am sort of stuck because I feel like if I don't write out the scenes in my head now, I will forgot some of the better elements of them when I get to them. On the other hand, by writing them out now, I might end up just getting it out of my system and losing the whole thing. I know there isn't really a right way to write, I was just curious how others do it.

[imaginarycircus]

No scene comes out on paper exactly as I had it in my head. If I have an idea about a future scene I don't want to lose? I make some detailed notes about it.

[kerryblaze]

I write linearly. I've tried writing the scenes down as they come, but then I always have continuity errors and such in the finished work.

So glad you have someone wonderful!!!!

:((((( I have several friends with plantar fasciitis and they all say it really hurts. I'm sorry. *hugs*

[misscake]

Do you ever worry you will lose some of the scenes you've already written in your head if you don't write them as they come to you? I know there isn't really a right way to write, I am just curious how others do it.

[sandy_phoenix]

Owie! *huggles* I'm sorry about your foot.

YAYS for the excellent new employee! *\o/*

I definitely write linearly. I even work from an outline. Now, I don't adhere to the outline 100% so I have to update it from time to time to reflect whatever changes I've made. But, yeah. Start at beginning. Write to end. That's me.

[misscake]

Maybe the outline is the better idea. I keep getting stuck because I feel like if I write the story linearly I will lose some of the scenes I've drafted in my head. But if I write the scenes, will I end up losing interest? I know there isn't really a right way to write, I was just curious how others do it.

[sandy_phoenix]

Yep, no one right way, imho. I have occasionally made notes about some particular detail or scene that I imagined and wanted to include but I don't write it out until I know where and how it's going to fit. The outline and notes keep me from losing ideas I get and allow me to write linearly, as is my preference. I do know people who write scenes and snippets of dialogue and, later on, weave them together. My brain just doesn't work that way and I can't do it, though. :P

[avidbeader]

(1) I've done both. In general, I find that writing the scene that MUST BE WRITTEN NOW makes for a good scene, but then continuity and such creates havoc. Writing linearly is slower, but I think helps make the entire story hang together better. These days if a terrific scene pops into my head, I jot a brief outline in parentheses at the end of the document as part of the loose outline I tend to keep for longer works.

(2) Yay!

(3) I went through a bout of plantar fasciitis back in grad school. After weeks of icing and ultrasound treatments, I saved up and got a really, really good pair of sneakers, custom-fit at a specialty shop. That was all it took for the pain to ebb, spending as much of the day as possible in really good supportive sneakers. I've never had a recurrence, even as I went back into teaching and wearing simple flats all day.

[misscake]

I know a lot of the foot pain is from years of wearing shows that are more cute than they are supportive. I did get some good shoes a few weeks ago, but I've not been diligent about wearing them. I'm going to try and do that more along with the icing and hope that works!

[schnoogle]

An anatomy teacher told us that a great way to treat plantar fasciitis is to freeze a single-serve soft drink bottle that's curved appropriately and then roll it back and forth under your foot as you sit and watch TV/otherwise relax in the evening.

[misscake]

Oh, that's a good idea, thanks!