Writing Process

On a sidenote about the playlist-- It is funny how when I find songs that go with everything but, what I am writing. I always find songs for what could happen next. Anyway I often make a playlist for myself with just random songs to help me write. I didn't realize it would instantly update the one I have on the blog. So, if there are some random songs on that one, that is why. I will probably rename/recreate a new playlist with each post. Apparently I can have as many as I want !

I have said I wanted to get into my writing process a bit, so I created this entry. As I started really thinking about how I write I realized there are more steps than I thought ! If you hate this kind of thing, skip the purple writing. The first thing I do obviously, is have an idea. When it comes to United Light the idea is usually what I want to happen. It can be just a beginning scene or an ending but, I usually have some kind of inspiration point. Then I do the following steps 1. I write a very rough version of what I want to happen. I sometimes won't write out entire dialogues but, just general idea. I'm not very descriptive and don't worry about writing good. If I can't think of a word to describe something I usually leave ... 2. Then I edit to add dialogue, descriptions and all over better writing.Sometimes I will also add motives. This is also where I would change the plot points and then go back and add foreshadowing for the new plot device. This is also where little details that a certain character would never know (like Juliana knitting the blanket she has in chapter 12) are taken out. 3. I put the text online and I re-read it as you all read it, adding things to make it better. And that's the basic process. With that in mind in chapter 13, I did a lot of things in Stage 1 that I did not like. I had written all of the story from Juliana's POV. I realized later that it would be better told through someone else's eyes because I could not really grasp on Juliana's actions. I know that probably doesn't make much sense. I was hoping that might explain some of the gaps in transitions.

The point is, I decided to do a stage 2 version of the original story and share it. In reality both versions exist in the UL canon.

It was actually a challenge for me to take this story and translate it to how Sawyer was seeing it. In reality this is more of the original than an alternate.

Before anyone asks yes, I am working on an update.

Another Alternate Version.