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To take my mind off recent developments, especially since brooding and even, at this point, planning, is pre' useless right now, I have been thinking about stories.

Thinking about my last two stories, I realize that I like writing about love. About how love works, what it looks like, how it can be used. I like to apply the laws of conservation to people, actions, and emotions. I like to tell stories about how even something that looks like despair may be winning.

Because stories have to be interesting, they are usually about some kind of crisis -- man vs. nature, man vs. man, man vs. self -- and all that jazz.

I want to write a quiet story, though. Something that focuses on nature, on inner forces. Hmm. Fecundity and birth. The growth of ideas or fruition of plans. Hmm. Hmm.
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I'm in the process of thinking a story out, and I thought that it might be interesting to blog how I get from point A to B. Perhaps even post as-I-write-it. But, while it's fascinating to me, I'm not sure if anyone else would give a flying fig. [livejournal.com profile] towersofgrey wrote a great post explaining his process. Of course, my process is different. Using the same cooking analogy, I look in the cupboard and get an idea of what I want to make. Then I gather all of my ingredients and picture how they're all going to go together. This is real important to me; I can't start chopping the onions until I know what pan I'm gonna be using to saute them in, and how can you start chopping onions when you haven't figured out what size onions you're gonna need to end up with?

So, anyway, I'll friendlock the posts, and put it all under a cut 'cause they'll probably be long. I'll tag them all as "writing process" if anyone wants to read the thing from start to finish. There. That should make it easy to skip if folks wanna, or easy to find, too.

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