Also, regarding my answers on the poll: I answered Other on the first question for the reason I was trying to articulate above. I guess what I get first is closest to setting, but really it's just a feeling, usually based on a phrase--oddly enough, it's often a phrase describing something visual, but not something I actually see. For example, one story I was planning last year was stuck until I got an idea of this scene in a country lane, late autumn, and the phrase "the leaves curling like flame around them."
As for my second answer, it's usually some combination of style and character, although in general style is most important to me.
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Date: 2005-07-04 01:17 am (UTC)As for my second answer, it's usually some combination of style and character, although in general style is most important to me.