I'm not sure if I'm getting more sophisticated in my plotting, or just more sloppy.
I've always had a tendency to not be completely linear. I've always been partial to flashbacks and parallel plots.
But now I'm being non-linear in the regular narrative. Complicated back and forths, with quite a few characters.
I like it. I feel like it works. I guess I'll find out if it works when others read it.
I think this is just being more comfortable writing. Not so worried about the "rules" or what I perceive to be the rules. My general approach to things is to believe that rules exist for a reason, and you break them at your peril.
But I think in fiction, whatever works -- works.
It's amazing to me how each book takes on its own identity -- even in a series, I'll change tone and style. But it's this internal dynamic that makes writing interesting to me. Each time, I find that the story comes from inside and takes form without any reference to the outside world.
It is what it is. It exists as its own thing.
I've always had a tendency to not be completely linear. I've always been partial to flashbacks and parallel plots.
But now I'm being non-linear in the regular narrative. Complicated back and forths, with quite a few characters.
I like it. I feel like it works. I guess I'll find out if it works when others read it.
I think this is just being more comfortable writing. Not so worried about the "rules" or what I perceive to be the rules. My general approach to things is to believe that rules exist for a reason, and you break them at your peril.
But I think in fiction, whatever works -- works.
It's amazing to me how each book takes on its own identity -- even in a series, I'll change tone and style. But it's this internal dynamic that makes writing interesting to me. Each time, I find that the story comes from inside and takes form without any reference to the outside world.
It is what it is. It exists as its own thing.