tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718195565973839216.post528760076062745068..comments2023-08-28T20:55:37.738+08:00Comments on Satima's Blogspot: Planning and FlimmeringSatima Flavellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17427849961195148899noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718195565973839216.post-18531175286657771872007-01-13T12:48:00.000+09:002007-01-13T12:48:00.000+09:00Ruv, I especially like your musings where you conc...Ruv, I especially like your musings where you conclude "...if you want to write a psychological story, the speculative elements should help to: make the setting and characters more exciting and relevant, the plot more interesting, and the imagery more vivid....Actually, thinking about it, this probably applies to spec fic in non-psychological tales too."<br /><br />How right you are, Ruv. There's nothing more inane than a story purporting to be SF in which the speculative elements are just window dressing. You don't see much published work along those lines these days, but they turn up all the time in crit groups.<br /><br />OTOH, maybe a story in which the MC's growth is painted on afterwards is just as inane. I think I have a topic for my next blog entry:-)Satima Flavellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17427849961195148899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718195565973839216.post-38987551547450218312007-01-13T11:36:00.000+09:002007-01-13T11:36:00.000+09:00There's a lot to enjoy about flimmery, Satima, and...There's a lot to enjoy about flimmery, Satima, and I agree with Lee B about it being good for short stories. I've written some that way. Structure has benefits too - especially (as Lee mentioned) for larger or more complex works.<br /><br />It takes time to learn to use unfamiliar writing approaches (I'm <a href="http://ruvdraba.livejournal.com/863.html#cutid1">agonising over one</a> now), but having more than one approach gives you some flex as to what you tackle, and how you do it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718195565973839216.post-81396553875043315392007-01-13T07:16:00.000+09:002007-01-13T07:16:00.000+09:00Hey, Helen, when you've extracted all the juice to...Hey, Helen, when you've extracted all the juice to be had from the Clarion pineapple you'll be on the road to being as well paid as any other writer in Oz*g*.<br /><br />It would be nice, though, wouldn't it, to make a living from writing, even if it's only a meagre one. In fact, any payment is good, as it's a validation of kinds. We do have this thing in our society that if you do anything for nothing you're a either a fool or you're not good enough for anyone to want to pay you. It's sad for those of us whose talents lie in fields where money doesn't grow.Satima Flavellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17427849961195148899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718195565973839216.post-1760651497109925652007-01-12T17:10:00.000+09:002007-01-12T17:10:00.000+09:00Okay now I know what my writing style is called. L...Okay now I know what my writing style is called. Love that word. Well paid would be others I could come to love.Helen V.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07989670682260643429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718195565973839216.post-53876549752188097802007-01-11T20:25:00.000+09:002007-01-11T20:25:00.000+09:00He heh - it's how we all live, when all's said and...He heh - it's how we all live, when all's said and done. We make plans but we finish up going elsewhere and doing other things at least 70% of the time. In fact, I reckon it's a rare person who can seriously say when they retire that life has gone as they planned it when they left school!Satima Flavellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17427849961195148899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718195565973839216.post-40757496015026649922007-01-11T16:45:00.000+09:002007-01-11T16:45:00.000+09:00Flimmer! What a great word! That may describe how ...Flimmer! What a great word! That may describe how some people write, but I think it pretty accurately describes how I live! <br /><br />Glad you're getting some words on paper :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718195565973839216.post-8441232953087199842007-01-10T14:53:00.000+09:002007-01-10T14:53:00.000+09:00Hey Glenda, thanks for stopping by! I think someon...Hey Glenda, thanks for stopping by! I think someone from Romance Writers of America invented "flimmering", based on an obcure verb "to flimmer", which means just what it sounds like - to flit, flicker and glimmer without taking solid form. I'm dying to write a scene with will o' the wisps in it Just so's I can say "they flimmered across the bog" or something:-)Satima Flavellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17427849961195148899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718195565973839216.post-61316200504632222222007-01-09T22:10:00.000+09:002007-01-09T22:10:00.000+09:00Flimmerer. Love that word!Flimmerer. Love that word!Glenda Larkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10113271268122909969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718195565973839216.post-57988102289321566492007-01-09T20:30:00.000+09:002007-01-09T20:30:00.000+09:00Sounds good to me, Lee. I wish my characters would...Sounds good to me, Lee. I wish my characters would take me to the pub! Over a few drinks they might tell me where the story's going...Satima Flavellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17427849961195148899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7718195565973839216.post-87463961670583278432007-01-09T07:29:00.000+09:002007-01-09T07:29:00.000+09:00I write in exactly the same way 9 times out of 10....I write in exactly the same way 9 times out of 10. Works brilliantly for short stories, where I often set out with only the flimsiest (if any) idea of the ending.<br /><br />Hard work for novels, though. My first novel I plotted quite tightly, and then the characters took me away from the plot anyway. The second I'm working on now, and I've basically said to the characters "Okay, where's this all going?"<br /><br />Turns out, so far, that it's going to the pub :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14168569626904048820noreply@blogger.com