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Jan. 15th, 2004 11:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pantryslutLori's increasingly typical writing process:
1) Agonize and strain for days, looking for the key that will unlock the flow of words. The key might be a line, an image, a phrase; for nonfiction, it's usually the opening hook.
In this first stage, the agony and strain is actually over figuring out what the key *is.*
2) Furious brainstorming to come up with the actual form of the key -- the opening line or whatever.
3) Blessed word flow!
I hit 2) sometime after midnight last night. Hooray!
I hope this is evidence that dinner with friends (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zille and alexiflex, in this case) is a writing lubricant. Wouldn't that be nice? Clearly I shall have to run more tests.
1) Agonize and strain for days, looking for the key that will unlock the flow of words. The key might be a line, an image, a phrase; for nonfiction, it's usually the opening hook.
In this first stage, the agony and strain is actually over figuring out what the key *is.*
2) Furious brainstorming to come up with the actual form of the key -- the opening line or whatever.
3) Blessed word flow!
I hit 2) sometime after midnight last night. Hooray!
I hope this is evidence that dinner with friends (
zille and alexiflex, in this case) is a writing lubricant. Wouldn't that be nice? Clearly I shall have to run more tests.
