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From beginning to end or all over the place??
Just wanted to gauge how people write - I tend to plot out a basic premise then I do an introduction - after that I'm all over the place - writing bits and pieces out of sequence/order in fact I usually write the ending way before I get there it works for me because it gives me little milestones to aim for as I go along and usually means I never get 'blocked' because I can jump around - it does bring some continuity issues in now and then but I'm getting better at dealing with them - my biggest problem is when I randomly decide to change a characters name 3/4 of the way through and even on my 3rd edit I still come across the old name lol - if some of you do suffer from writers block and you don't do this - might be worth a try or maybe everybody works like this and everyone is bonkers lol
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I'm currently re-working a novel from ten years ago - it was supposed to be a quick edit, but then I realised how much work needed to be done - and even that wasn't as much as it turns out to be. Still, the end is in sight.
Use find and replace to change names then it won't turn up again.
I know the end, I may just get there in a slightly different way than I first thought- a slight diversion you could say.