tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post8731425666370225050..comments2023-12-25T00:38:19.500-08:00Comments on Finding Wonderland: The WritingYA Weblog (archive): What We Talk About When We Talk About STRUCTURESarah Stevensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16534942492714970282noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-12417580456551485372014-06-20T11:04:38.513-07:002014-06-20T11:04:38.513-07:00Oh, I liked that post--thanks. Stacy is right: it&...Oh, I liked that post--thanks. Stacy is right: it's definitely key to start off with a situation readers can relate to. Then, before your readers even know it, you've started sneaking in those world-building details. :)<br /><br />I'm constantly struggling with the fact that I'm not a very structured person, when it comes down to it. I love the IDEA of structure and organization, but when I actually sit down to write... I think for me, it's like other issues of craft: I want to know them and absorb them so they're just kind of there in my subconscious when I sit down to write, rather than consciously applying them.Sarah Stevensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16534942492714970282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-79184266014888851342014-06-20T08:16:07.779-07:002014-06-20T08:16:07.779-07:00I honestly don't think about "novel struc...I honestly don't think about "novel structure" when I write, with the exception of the Rule of Three - a story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. (This really does sound better as <i>Omnes Trium Perfectum</i>, does it not?) I don't even honestly <i>think</i> that -- but I tend to hear music in thirds, I tend to, when I use an Oxford comma, use it to tie together three words or concepts, and I tend to use three...landmarks if I'm trying to verbally tell a joke or give directions or something. I am just geared to threes.<br /><br />That being said, I never do plot trees and only once in awhile do narrative arc mapping that looks like ginormous Venn diagrams - I'm just not that able to stick to one "rule" for structure... because I'm just not that (cough) structured... Fortunately, others of us are, so here's <a href="http://blog.leeandlow.com/2014/06/19/ask-an-editor-worldbuilding-in-speculative-fiction-part-i/" rel="nofollow">Stacy Whitman on Worldbuilding.</a>tanita✿davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01671822274852087499noreply@blogger.com