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Originally Posted by DougF
Very Good Pyrotex,
I wish I could write like that.
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Thank you!
So do I.
Which is to say, I cannot write that way just any ol' time I try.
All my stories were written using a technique called "looping". Basically, I write or type as fast as I can everything that comes to my mind, no stopping, no thinking, no correcting, no editing--typing random words if necessary...for about 5 minutes. Then I select several phrases, sentences, that seem to be interesting in one way or another, and copy them to the top of a new page. Repeat. And repeat. And repeat. Until a story emerges. This may take a few hours or a few days. But at some point, the gibberish starts to make sense and I find myself writing a cogent portion of a story with characters that are alien to me and a plot that seems to have appeared out of nowhere.
Then I start over with a clean file and write out the whole story.
But I can't just sit down and write a new story.
