katallison

I think I'm Method, sort of, in the way that Viggo Mortensen was said to be Method when he worked on Lord of the Rings: regardless of how much thought I put into it beforehand, when I'm working on a story too long to be written in a single sitting, I go there, and I don't come out. I think about it all the time, whether I'm actually putting down words or not, which tends to mean I work out a lot of backstory and afterstory and sidestory and motivation and map out future scenes and research all kinds of minute and ridiculous aspects of the story and so on. On the one hand, it makes writing difficult when I can't get myself to focus on one thing long enough to totally immerse myself in it, and on the other hand, it's how I wound up writing the hockey AU.