aleathiel

Oh, and I was initially thinking short story, like four to five thousand words, maybe ten thousand, somewhere in there. But it was only a fuzzy idea and that's just as well. I usually just start writing and keep going until I'm done and whatever length it turns out is what it is. Hopelessly disorganized, I know, but I've never had any luck with doing enough advance planning to really get a handle on how long something was going to be. The only time I ever did a full outline for a novel it came to a screeching halt and I was never able to do anything with it. :( I don't outline school papers either -- even upper division history papers with fifty-some pages and over a hundred footnotes. I just surround myself with books full of bookmarks and scribbled notes and photocopies of stuff with hilighter all over it and start typing. It works, too; I got As on almost all my papers. I've never been able to push it so far as a finished novel, though. :/

Angie