Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 29/10/2024Ha yes, the specific anxiety of writing a story with lots of moving parts and being completely unsure if the whole thing is ever going to actually fit together 101207
Trips the Triple T Titan @tripstitan.bsky.social · 29/10/2024Felt I took to using Obsidian when the pieces start to scatter To keep track of who's where when/learned which secret from whom/who is and isn't in the know about which thing, which magic items are on cooldown, who was injured where and how they're recovering What the bad guys are up to offscreen 000
DerangedDiligence/Lyre/Eli/Keymon @derangeddiligence.bsky.social · 29/10/2024Odd...my process tends to line up like dominoes and it's always a thrill to see where things are taken. =] 000
Descenacre @descenacre.bsky.social · 29/10/2024when u write an outline for a story intended to have a particular ending, but as you get to actually writing it, your values shift and change. It affects your writing, and eventually the ending you planned years ago doesn't make any sense at all in the context of the new story, so u make a new one 000
Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 29/10/2024In my head, you are holding separate pieces in each hand, mashing them together and saying "Now kiss", while various newts look on. 040
Antiwar Mayor of the Moon @moonmayor.bsky.social · 29/10/2024I just assume that authors have a wall with pins and red yarn to understand the connections the characters have with other people and places and whatever else. 000
Mambolica, PhD-game-on! @mambolica.bsky.social · 29/10/2024Stop describing my dissertation, please. 010
Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 29/10/2024If it helps every author I know hits that point with every book! Even the ones with very few moving parts 0110
rainnqu @rainnqu.bsky.social · 29/10/2024I like to write up the different events as I think of them and then stitch them together chronologically, editing in continuities. That being said, I think I'm doing this "writing" thing entirely wrong. 000
H4mmerh3d @h4mmerh3d.bsky.social · 29/10/2024And to assuage your fears, here's an advice from personal experience: Throw it in! We'll get to pruning and weaving those pieces together later. It's at least better to have some material to work with rather than disjointed words swimming through the air. 000
