Comments on: Writing is like a cookie… http://www.emmasinclair.com/blog/2006/03/21/writing-is-like-a-cookie/ Author of Sizzling Hot Romance Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:55:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: C'ann http://www.emmasinclair.com/blog/2006/03/21/writing-is-like-a-cookie/#comment-1154 Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:35:34 +0000 http://www.emmasinclair.com/blog/2006/03/21/writing-is-like-a-cookie/#comment-1154 This is a test. This is only a test. Your blog has eaten my last two posts. Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep This is a test. This is only a test. Your blog has eaten my last two posts.
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]]> by: April Alsup http://www.emmasinclair.com/blog/2006/03/21/writing-is-like-a-cookie/#comment-1151 Wed, 22 Mar 2006 01:41:55 +0000 http://www.emmasinclair.com/blog/2006/03/21/writing-is-like-a-cookie/#comment-1151 Maybe this is why I don't make good scratch cookies. I can't do the breaking apart thing either. And it's sort of nice to hear I'm not the only one. forever I've heard about doing that and I've sat by silently thinking there was no way in the world I could. it just seems like they're all so interwoven. When you seperate it, anything you do effects the mass. Does that make sense? To use Emma's darling analogy... If I take out the chocolate chops and switched them with peanut butter morsels instead, I have peanut butter cookies, not chocolate chip cookies. And well, that's too much of a change for me to consider in part instead of whole. Hmmm... Now I'm off to the kitchen for a snack. Probably not one cookie in the house. grumble...grumble... Maybe this is why I don’t make good scratch cookies. I can’t do the breaking apart thing either. And it’s sort of nice to hear I’m not the only one. forever I’ve heard about doing that and I’ve sat by silently thinking there was no way in the world I could. it just seems like they’re all so interwoven. When you seperate it, anything you do effects the mass. Does that make sense? To use Emma’s darling analogy… If I take out the chocolate chops and switched them with peanut butter morsels instead, I have peanut butter cookies, not chocolate chip cookies. And well, that’s too much of a change for me to consider in part instead of whole.

Hmmm… Now I’m off to the kitchen for a snack. Probably not one cookie in the house. grumble…grumble…

]]> by: Kendra http://www.emmasinclair.com/blog/2006/03/21/writing-is-like-a-cookie/#comment-1150 Wed, 22 Mar 2006 01:24:20 +0000 http://www.emmasinclair.com/blog/2006/03/21/writing-is-like-a-cookie/#comment-1150 PLOTTING the emotional connection out of the book. Picking it to death. PLOTTING the emotional connection out of the book. Picking it to death.

]]> by: Emma http://www.emmasinclair.com/blog/2006/03/21/writing-is-like-a-cookie/#comment-1149 Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:52:58 +0000 http://www.emmasinclair.com/blog/2006/03/21/writing-is-like-a-cookie/#comment-1149 I'm going to take my cookie analogy a little further now... If you're trying to figure out how to make a cookie, it makes sense to look at it disjointedly. You would pick out the chocolate chip, and maybe the oatmeal if they're oatmeal chocolate chip (I'm making my tummy growl). And it makes sense to me to break up your story and look at it in smaller pieces. BUT, when I do it, it doesn't make sense to me. I think most of it is intimidation, that it scares me to look too closely because I'm afraid that what should be there, won't. I’m going to take my cookie analogy a little further now…

If you’re trying to figure out how to make a cookie, it makes sense to look at it disjointedly. You would pick out the chocolate chip, and maybe the oatmeal if they’re oatmeal chocolate chip (I’m making my tummy growl).

And it makes sense to me to break up your story and look at it in smaller pieces. BUT, when I do it, it doesn’t make sense to me. I think most of it is intimidation, that it scares me to look too closely because I’m afraid that what should be there, won’t.

]]> by: Nicole Reising http://www.emmasinclair.com/blog/2006/03/21/writing-is-like-a-cookie/#comment-1148 Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:06:42 +0000 http://www.emmasinclair.com/blog/2006/03/21/writing-is-like-a-cookie/#comment-1148 Emma 'laughing here' is thinking about those yummy cookies! :-) I have definitely found that I break my book up into parts. Not scenes exactly... partly but mostly by chapters. Most of my scenes are longer then a chapter. Soooo its to overwhelming for me to consider a whole scene. Well, not all the time, some are short and sweet but... I'm long winded :-) as if you haven't noticed in the past. And as such my characters have a lot to say. :-) Like you said, we all have our own way of doing it, the main thing is that we find it. :-) Have fun dreaming of those cookies! For some reason I'm really really hungry for oreos now. Ummm, and we don't have any on hand right now. All of a sudden, I think when Carter wakes up we need to run to the store. :-) Cole Emma ‘laughing here’ is thinking about those yummy cookies! :-) I have definitely found that I break my book up into parts. Not scenes exactly… partly but mostly by chapters. Most of my scenes are longer then a chapter. Soooo its to overwhelming for me to consider a whole scene. Well, not all the time, some are short and sweet but… I’m long winded :-) as if you haven’t noticed in the past. And as such my characters have a lot to say. :-) Like you said, we all have our own way of doing it, the main thing is that we find it. :-) Have fun dreaming of those cookies! For some reason I’m really really hungry for oreos now. Ummm, and we don’t have any on hand right now. All of a sudden, I think when Carter wakes up we need to run to the store. :-)

Cole

]]> by: Tess Harrison http://www.emmasinclair.com/blog/2006/03/21/writing-is-like-a-cookie/#comment-1147 Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:41:56 +0000 http://www.emmasinclair.com/blog/2006/03/21/writing-is-like-a-cookie/#comment-1147 LOL, Emma! It does sound strange when you compare what I'm doing to picking out the chocolate chips in a cookie. But what this does for me is helps me see that I have everything I need there and there's no blanks or gaps or loss ends hanging down dragging the story. When I'm writing I can't do it pieces or in disjointed scenes. I have to write from beginning to end. And that's part of my problem with this blockage. I took those scenes and started breaking them up and shifting them around in the story and it no longer played out in my mind. But after the story is written what i'm doing now is a huge help for me to make sure I'm all good. I'm just having to do this process early and it's actually working for me. YAY. . . Did that make any sense at all? But I just thought of something . . . in my blog post today I broke a movie down by the sex in it and evaluated it. This breaking things down is rubbing off on me I think. LOL, Emma! It does sound strange when you compare what I’m doing to picking out the chocolate chips in a cookie. But what this does for me is helps me see that I have everything I need there and there’s no blanks or gaps or loss ends hanging down dragging the story. When I’m writing I can’t do it pieces or in disjointed scenes. I have to write from beginning to end. And that’s part of my problem with this blockage. I took those scenes and started breaking them up and shifting them around in the story and it no longer played out in my mind. But after the story is written what i’m doing now is a huge help for me to make sure I’m all good. I’m just having to do this process early and it’s actually working for me. YAY. . . Did that make any sense at all?

But I just thought of something . . . in my blog post today I broke a movie down by the sex in it and evaluated it. This breaking things down is rubbing off on me I think.

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