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janegodzillaOkay, how do people write fiction in proper chronological order, from start to finish? For reals, you guys. This isn't a rhetorical question. I really and truly want to know. Because when *I* write, I bounce around from scene to scene, fill in the holes between them with *other* scenes, and eventually the whole thing either comes together how I want, or (and this happens more often than I'd like to admit) I get bored or pissed-off and I never work on it again. I can write from beginning to end with short things, but once a story gets longer than fifteen pages or so, I get all twitchy and have to start scene-hopping.
It's not really that big a deal, I guess, but there's this annoying part of my brain insisting that *real* writers do it start to finish. Since I can't strangle the voices in my head, I might as well throw the question out there to see how other people manage it. How do you get through the "boring" bits, or remember what things you had planned for the end of the story? My problem is that I can't seem to think in a linear way and just write whatever occurs to me at the time -- when I try to write straight through, I get stuck. :P But when I do the scene-hopping thing, sometimes I never go back to fill in the remaining scenes, and then it's just this half-finished skeleton of a story that I can never show anyone because it has *holes* in it.
(See, I'm stalled out on the two longer things I'm working on, and would rather talk *about* writing than do the deed itself. Haha, procrastination time!)
It's not really that big a deal, I guess, but there's this annoying part of my brain insisting that *real* writers do it start to finish. Since I can't strangle the voices in my head, I might as well throw the question out there to see how other people manage it. How do you get through the "boring" bits, or remember what things you had planned for the end of the story? My problem is that I can't seem to think in a linear way and just write whatever occurs to me at the time -- when I try to write straight through, I get stuck. :P But when I do the scene-hopping thing, sometimes I never go back to fill in the remaining scenes, and then it's just this half-finished skeleton of a story that I can never show anyone because it has *holes* in it.
(See, I'm stalled out on the two longer things I'm working on, and would rather talk *about* writing than do the deed itself. Haha, procrastination time!)