There is always a nerve-wracking
moment when I sit down at my laptop with blank document open waiting for me to
type out the words that have been flitting through my head for days, weeks or
even months. I kind of wish I could be one of those writers who sits down and
plans it all out and has her characters mapped out before even sitting down but
unfortunately it just doesn't seem to work for me.
Instead my stories and characters
seem to evolve organically chapter by chapter and this means that sometimes
what happens in my head doesn't actually translate onto my screen. A prime
example of this was my character Alex in my latest novel, Tied to You.
Originally I had planned his character to be quite harsh and domineering, but
once I sat down and wrote the first couple of chapters I realised that I
wouldn't be able to sustain the level of aggression I had originally planned in
relation to Olivia and instead he took on a more chilled out, surfer-boy slash
CEO, demeanour.
So while I try to have a rough
plot outlined in my head, I find that anything more than that just doesn't work
for me. Instead I try to plan scene by scene, thinking them through before
committing them to paper, to see where the story takes me. Sometimes it works
out just as planned and other times it takes me somewhere completely
unexpected…and that is not always a bad thing.
This post was originally published on http://belindasbookshelf.com on 17 November 2014
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