Comments on: I got nothin’. http://magicalwords.net/cemurphy/i-got-nothin/ Writing tips and publishing advice for aspiring novelists. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:37:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: faithhunterhttp://magicalwords.net/cemurphy/i-got-nothin/#comment-499 faithhunter Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:23:13 +0000 http://magicalwords.net/2008/04/08/cemurphy/i-got-nothin/#comment-499 mikaela said: It might be that I am a stupid newbie, but is it any way you can keep the words you have written, for that important scene later in the book? I mean if your lightbulb doesn’t work of courseMikaela, I save the words into a separate file. Just in case. But honestly, I think I maybe went back to that file one time in all the years.Once a story takes a definate turn, the words for the alternate reality have no place in the world I am revealing / creating. So, eyah, I save them. But I seldom use them. Faith mikaela said:
It might be that I am a stupid newbie, but is it any way you can keep the words you have written, for that important scene later in the book? I mean if your lightbulb doesn’t work of course

Mikaela, I save the words into a separate file. Just in case. But honestly, I think I maybe went back to that file one time in all the years.

Once a story takes a definate turn, the words for the alternate reality have no place in the world I am revealing / creating. So, eyah, I save them. But I seldom use them.
Faith

]]> By: cemurphyhttp://magicalwords.net/cemurphy/i-got-nothin/#comment-496 cemurphy Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:00:26 +0000 http://magicalwords.net/2008/04/08/cemurphy/i-got-nothin/#comment-496 For those keeping track at home, I managed to grind my way through the scene and only had to strike a couple hundred words (sad, because where those words were leading would have been such a *fun* scene, but it would've been entirely wrong, too), and it led into a pretty decent chapter end which now gets all the characters into more or less the right positions to be able to finish the book. Now all I need to do is write fifty thousand words of politics against what's effectively a world war...o.O-Catie For those keeping track at home, I managed to grind my way through the scene and only had to strike a couple hundred words (sad, because where those words were leading would have been such a *fun* scene, but it would’ve been entirely wrong, too), and it led into a pretty decent chapter end which now gets all the characters into more or less the right positions to be able to finish the book. Now all I need to do is write fifty thousand words of politics against what’s effectively a world war…

o.O

-Catie

]]> By: mikaelahttp://magicalwords.net/cemurphy/i-got-nothin/#comment-495 mikaela Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:08:23 +0000 http://magicalwords.net/2008/04/08/cemurphy/i-got-nothin/#comment-495 It might be that I am a stupid newbie, but is it any way you can keep the words you have written, for that important scene later in the book? I mean if your lightbulb doesn't work of course :) It might be that I am a stupid newbie, but is it any way you can keep the words you have written, for that important scene later in the book? I mean if your lightbulb doesn’t work of course :)

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