Forum: Writers


Subject: What do you like to write?

Crescent opened this issue on Jul 15, 2002 ยท 19 posts


Little_Dragon posted Tue, 16 July 2002 at 7:47 AM

I like to write fantasy, mostly. Sword and sorcery, set in a world where the fey still have a strong presence. Short stories, epic tales, any length.

I've been told that my writing techniques are somewhat odd. I rarely compose a story in a linear fashion. Mostly, I write fragments: pieces of a scene, bits of dialogue, sections of descriptive narrative. Eventually I have enough fragments to piece together an entire story. Dozens of files on this computer are occupied by fragments that have yet to be fully assembled, due to missing pieces. Their time will come. Some, sooner than others. It's always a wonderful experience when I have enough pieces to suddenly see the puzzle as a whole.

On one occasion I wrote an entire story backwards, end to beginning. That was interesting. It was a time travel story, by the way; one chapter in an extremely long, unfinished series.