Homework
June 21, 2002
7:07 a.m.
AJ Budrys has been known for saying (and I'm paraphrasing here), that doing your homework is what makes the writing go so fast. He means, of course, that spending time understanding the story you're working on before you create it will make it a lot easier to write. Mike Resnick always said the same thing. Given those two careers, I think they're on to something. I have not created any words the past two days. Instead, I've been thinking. Plotting. Analyzing. Books are just that way--but then, you already knew that. I've got my spreadsheet out. It's a matrix of characters and their motivations over the span of my book. I'm tagging events. Many things are clearer today than they were a few days ago. All this is good. It's very hard work, though. Painfully frustrating in some ways, but it feels good when it's done.   Have a great day.  Daily Persistence is © Ron Collins |
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