Nano-woeisme-mo

[elingregory]

See I'm a plotter. A dyed in the wool, obsessive, detail orientated, what colour socks are they wearing plotter. By the time I actually start to write in Word or Scrivener I've usually spent several months thinking and over thinking and putting it all on paper so my first draft is more or less already done in my notes, I just need to string it all together.

I'm a bit like someone who is putting together Ikea furniture with all the parts carefully laid out and all the tools to hand, including that annoying little allen key thing, and a copy of the instructions blown up to A3 so it's nice and easy to read.

So there I am, carefully assembling my KLEPPSTAN wardrobe. Everything seems to be going OK. Then - oh shit - I find that one of the doors is from a BESTA cupboard, i HAVE LIATORP bookcase shelves with FJÄLLBO supports and the whole thing is running away from me on OMBYTE castors. There's a load of other things too but I don't recognise their names - Tillsyn? Hostmys? - or know what they do.

All I can do is keep screwing it all together and hope for the best.

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[moth2fic]

I have to plot. I mean, if it's basically a detective story you have to know where it's going and you have to sort out the clues for the reader. But my characters have minds of their own. We've reached a kind of accommodation. I tell them where we're headed and they can do what they like on the way...