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Monday, October 22nd, 2007 04:59 pm
I'm discovering something rather interesting about my process of writing. I tend to write the dialogue first and then fit in the story around it.


I first noticed this with Constant, where I had the opening (which is more or less Jack's internal monologue) and several sections of dialogue written before I even embarked upon the smut; I then just sort of stuck the smut in around those bits of dialogue.

It's also happening that way with Master Plan, though a lot more of that speech is internal monologue because it's first person.

But it strikes me that for a such a 'visual' person, it's odd that I'm hearing the dialogue first, not seeing the pictures. I get a vague picture with the dialogue, but it comes into my head very much like a play: just the characters speaking, without speach tags or other descriptions, just what they're saying to each other.

And it's not just because the voices are so clear in fanfic, because there are real actors playing them. Thinking about it, I write original fic that way too.

Interesting, huh?



In other news, I've finished writing up the Boom Town section of my exploration of the relationship between Jack, the Doctor and Rose in S1 so am now ready to sit down and watch Bad Wolf tonight. :-)
Monday, October 22nd, 2007 04:16 pm (UTC)
psst... you have the same link for Constant and Master Plan... both go to Constant

interesting about the dialogue. I'm a schizophrenic writer, sometimes it's all about the dialogue and writing something around that, other times it's all about the scenery or situation.
Monday, October 22nd, 2007 04:40 pm (UTC)
oh sure, blame the little munchkin....
Monday, October 22nd, 2007 04:50 pm (UTC)
Not going there... so not going there...
Monday, October 22nd, 2007 05:07 pm (UTC)
Admit it, you are thinking about how evil I am right about now....
Monday, October 22nd, 2007 05:23 pm (UTC)
evil and bearing chocolate...
Monday, October 22nd, 2007 06:05 pm (UTC)
*phew*
Monday, October 22nd, 2007 05:17 pm (UTC)
*snap*
I think you already know I get dialogue before anything else for most things except oddly - or maybe not *g* - the porn I now find myself writing... :D
Monday, October 22nd, 2007 07:36 pm (UTC)
I don't think I did know that, actually
Well you do now :)