With me, it actually depends on the intent of the story.
With a dialogue-heavy story, I tend to write the dialogue out first, without any description, and then I go back over it and slowly work through the mental work behind the dialogue. And because of that, the story doesn't always look dialogue-based at the end.
With an emotional vignette, I pretty much write from beginning to end. It's all about that initial "Oh, that's what this story is about," moment. And though, again, I revise and refine it, it all pretty much comes out in one whole piece.
Sometimes the actions dictate the emotions, sometimes the reverse. A big part of my writing is about the completely natural flow, just how the words come out, who the person is that I'm writing about, what the purpose of the story is. I also do a lot of intentional circling in my fic, doubling back to the point of the story at various points and at the end.
I don't usually have to spend too much time thinking about the character while I'm writing the fic, because I don't (generally) write fic until I know the characters, until I feel as though I could live them. On the other hand, writing fic has on occasion been how I finally understand a character.
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Date: 2005-06-12 11:00 pm (UTC)With a dialogue-heavy story, I tend to write the dialogue out first, without any description, and then I go back over it and slowly work through the mental work behind the dialogue. And because of that, the story doesn't always look dialogue-based at the end.
With an emotional vignette, I pretty much write from beginning to end. It's all about that initial "Oh, that's what this story is about," moment. And though, again, I revise and refine it, it all pretty much comes out in one whole piece.
Sometimes the actions dictate the emotions, sometimes the reverse. A big part of my writing is about the completely natural flow, just how the words come out, who the person is that I'm writing about, what the purpose of the story is. I also do a lot of intentional circling in my fic, doubling back to the point of the story at various points and at the end.
I don't usually have to spend too much time thinking about the character while I'm writing the fic, because I don't (generally) write fic until I know the characters, until I feel as though I could live them. On the other hand, writing fic has on occasion been how I finally understand a character.