Comments on: The Internal Editor at Work

By: Thursday Thirteen: Internal Editors « Impulsive Hearts

Thursday Thirteen: Internal Editors « Impulsive Hearts — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:03:21 +0000

[...] Editor via The University Blog 5. Turning your editor into an ally from About Freelance Writing 6. Deanna Hoak’s illustration of an IE at work and also her discussion with Jay Lake about internal editors suggests trying fast-flash fiction 7. [...]

By: Good things going on at Deanna Hoak

Good things going on at Deanna Hoak — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:11:43 +0000

[...] I’ve been working on a story based on that bit of setting I wrote a while back, and I’m very happy with it so far. I’m trying not to let it turn dark, which is a new thing for me. :-) [...]

By: the_red_shoes

the_red_shoes — Sun, 07 May 2006 19:02:31 +0000

As near as I can tell, I’m one of those writers who has to write in order to get ideas. If I sit around waiting for an idea to occur to me, I’ll just sit forever. Once I started painting this picture, though, plot ideas started to come to me. When I grab one and riff off it, I’m sure it’ll lead to more. :-) This was really a fantastic exercise for me.

DINGDINGDINGDINGDING…..yeah That’s Me as well. Ideas can come to me in a vacuum, as it were, but I don’t really start understanding and fleshing them out til I explore them — which sometimes involves a lot of wrong turns.

By: jodi_davis

jodi_davis — Sun, 07 May 2006 15:25:03 +0000

I get ideas without writing – but I can’t develop them. As I write – I nearly alwys am working on two documents – the prose and the outline. The outline is fluid till the last words of prose – but it makes sure that I don’t waste time writing in a cul-de-sac. Re-arranging an outline for a new development for a few hours is a better use of time than writing 5k words I’m not going to be able to use now.

By: sartorias

sartorias — Sun, 07 May 2006 13:36:16 +0000

I love seeing internal editor comments on a writing project. Others’ processes might differ from mine (I always get action first, though with cinematic ‘trailers’ of the setting) but I can always learn from them.

Thanks for sharing this.

By: markbourne

markbourne — Sun, 07 May 2006 13:27:12 +0000

As near as I can tell, I’m one of those writers who has to write in order to get ideas. If I sit around waiting for an idea to occur to me, I’ll just sit forever….

That’s me in a nut’s hell as well. The writing feeds itself. (And fwiw, it drives me bugfuck. Temperamentally I’d prefer to have a story shaped and beveled more fully in my head before I sit down to type.)