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unfeathered) wrote2007-10-22 04:59 pm
unfeathered) wrote2007-10-22 04:59 pm
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Dialogue comes first...
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. :-)
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. :-)
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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.
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It is interesting about the dialogue. I can't believe I never noticed it till recently! Mind you, it's not always just dialogue. It can be 'good' lines of narrative too. But it's definitely about hearing and not seeing, which is just weird!
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All is forgiven.
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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
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Works for porn too, for me, though.
(Most of what I write these days is porn.)
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Well you do now :)