Stupid spring - they’re calling for an inch of snow here today.

Anyway, today I want to talk breifly about writing processes. I know everyone has their own process and in the immortal words of Susan Elizabeth Phillips that process is to be protected to the death (okay, so I’m paraphrasing).

But, I still want to talk about it. Mostly because of Tess.

She’s doing this 30 drafts in 30 days thing where she goes through and looks at scenes individually and, I dunno, magically whips them into shape or something (obviously I don’t really get it ’cause it’s not my process).

But here’s the thing, it obviously helps her, it’s making her unblocked, but the thought of looking at my book and picking it apart by scenes absolutely terrifies me!

I’ll admit this once and never again - I don’t even know if I could separate my books into scenes. I look at a book as a whole. Please don’t think I’m picking on anyone’s process ’cause I’m not, if anything I’m impressed by people that can do this ’cause I can’t.

To me, picking apart the scenes in a book is like picking the chocolate chips out of a chocolate chip cookie (or perhaps eating the white stuff out of the center of the oreo first). The food all ends up in the same place, but I prefer my to eat the chocolate chips with the rest of the cookie, and dunk the whole oreo in milk, not just the chocolate parts.

*sigh* Only someone on a diet can compare writing to cookies.

So tell me about your process, and what kinds of things do you see others doing that you don’t understand?