thebaconsandwichofregret:

valkyrie1605:

Something I found that makes a scene easier and longer:

Writing the dialogue first.

I never used to do this, but one night it was really late and I was half asleep but I wanted to get some work done. So I decided to just fill in the dialogue I wanted for the scene.

I found myself with close to 1000 words of dialogue. (I obviously tagged who said what, how it was said, etc.)

When I came back to the document, I just filled in the action, the background, descriptions and plot.

I ended up with between 3000-4000 words in one sitting.

Maybe this won’t work for everyone, hell maybe someone else has already pointed this out, but I just wanted to share this writinf tip.

This is exactly how I write. It makes things so much easier.

If you imagine scenes like little movies happening in your head, this helps you get the core ideas down without getting bogged down in detail. I also add important expression or movement notes (blocking, as it were) in brackets like I’m writing a script.