Hmm, had a comment all typed out, and then you edited the entry and LJ blew up. Let's try again.
Hey, this isn't what you asked at all, and extremely tangential, but can you see moving pictures in your mind when you imagine a scene? Like, really moving pictures, like 24 frames per second videos. Because I just realized this past year that I can't, and I was wondering what other people see.
Sorry about the randomness. To answer the question you asked, I usually get inspired by plot first, or at least a snippet of action, despite my severe anti-plot writing tendencies. Of course, I'm horrible at coming up with initial ideas, and it doesn't happen by itself very often, so I'm not drawing on a huge pool of writing experience here. Setting can also work for me occasionally, but not to the crazy extremes you seem to take it to. : )
When I'm reading, the writing style outweighs every other aspect. I don't care what's happening to whom, if it's written in a way that's annoying, or hard to follow, or just distracting from the story, I tend to want to throw the book across the room. Yes, I'm talking to *you*, Woolfe, please go die now.
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Date: 2005-07-03 11:58 pm (UTC)Hey, this isn't what you asked at all, and extremely tangential, but can you see moving pictures in your mind when you imagine a scene? Like, really moving pictures, like 24 frames per second videos. Because I just realized this past year that I can't, and I was wondering what other people see.
Sorry about the randomness. To answer the question you asked, I usually get inspired by plot first, or at least a snippet of action, despite my severe anti-plot writing tendencies. Of course, I'm horrible at coming up with initial ideas, and it doesn't happen by itself very often, so I'm not drawing on a huge pool of writing experience here. Setting can also work for me occasionally, but not to the crazy extremes you seem to take it to. : )
When I'm reading, the writing style outweighs every other aspect. I don't care what's happening to whom, if it's written in a way that's annoying, or hard to follow, or just distracting from the story, I tend to want to throw the book across the room. Yes, I'm talking to *you*, Woolfe, please go die now.
Did any of that help? Sorry.