Showing posts with label writing process. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing process. Show all posts

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Writing processes

I've been saying for years when asked if I have an outline or a novel plan before I start working, that, no I tend to dream my way into a novel. Finally I've found a book that advocates that working method. I'm so excited! Of course, Robert Olen Butler does more than that in his book, From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction. He also has a wonderful chapter on creating moment by moment passages of sensory detail and an equally wonderful chapter on the cinema of the writer's mind.

So good is this book that I straight away placed an order with Amazon. I'm going to try his index card system for my next novel. Off to buy the index cards!