How Did I Do This?
25/10/14 08:57![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
madrobinsI just spent the last week reading all three Sarah Tolerance books, in part to make up a bible of character traits and locations, in part to get back into the groove. And I am left with one, overwhelming feeling:
How on earth did I come up with those plots? I write by discovery, then tuck the raw bits in afterward, but reading those three books, with their tangled threads and this-looks-inconsequential-but-it's-important cuing, I have no idea what I was thinking when I wrote them.
Fortunately, I remember going through the same thing with books 2 and 3, so I know that absolute bafflement is no bar to actually writing another book. Even so...was I smarter then? Or controlled by an alien consciousness? I'd really love to know.
How on earth did I come up with those plots? I write by discovery, then tuck the raw bits in afterward, but reading those three books, with their tangled threads and this-looks-inconsequential-but-it's-important cuing, I have no idea what I was thinking when I wrote them.
Fortunately, I remember going through the same thing with books 2 and 3, so I know that absolute bafflement is no bar to actually writing another book. Even so...was I smarter then? Or controlled by an alien consciousness? I'd really love to know.