How thoroughly do you plan a chapter?

[CarburetorThompson]

Planning is all do. I’ll plan out an entire story start to finish, and then just never write it because that’s the boring part.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Planning is all do. I’ll plan out an entire story start to finish, and then just never write it because that’s the boring part.

I've felt that.

 

[KrakenRiderEmma]

I havent brought these out in a while.

What I planned
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What I actually wrote
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This also looks like the classic process of "I know what the main quest should be but I also thought of some interesting sidequests to explore and OH MY GOD THE SIDEQUESTS TOOK OVER EVERYTHING

 

[Saberfang]

I plan pretty far ahead. I construct a scene in my story I want to happen, then I create several dozen chapters to help build up the scene for later. While writing, I ask myself, is this important for the upcoming key event, dose it add any interesting dynamic for the big event, and then from there I decide how I go about writing the lead up to the big payoff.

 

[Deleted member 68927]

I write to get dopamine spikes. Do you honestly believe I'll get a dopamine spike if I knew what would happen next? I might write word vomit, but I laugh as I do so.

Writing crack is cheaper, and less embarrassing, than going through therapy. You might not get enough masochists, I mean, readers, for it, but a couple will still find you.

 

[QuercusMalus]

Planning is all do. I’ll plan out an entire story start to finish, and then just never write it because that’s the boring part.

I hate how accurate this is.

 

[Comiak]

what the fuck is a plan? Is it like a short plane? All I have is a bunch of stuff stuck to the wall, I have no idea what I am doing.

 

[TheMonotonePuppet]

I have found the best method for me is to have a chapter "theme" and few key events. The rest of the chapter is mostly freestyle and improv. I was just wonder how some of y'all plan yours so I can improve and refine my own. My current method was devised as I wrote my first story (Delirious Degeneracy: Tales of the free | Scribble Hub) and shines quite well through my second one (Chronicles of the Overly Optimistic Uzumaki Twins | Scribble Hub).

So, how do you write your chapters?

Same.
But if I want to make a character that thinks too differently from me, then I plan very thoroughly. But that story isn't released, so it doesn't count.

 

[prognastat]

I have a very general plan for the story in mind as for the chapters themselves it depends. If I'm in "the zone" I don't plan and write as I go. If I'm not in the zone and kind of stuck I create bullet points to cover what I want to cover and then slowly expand those bullet points into a full chapter. So two very different strategies depending on how I'm feeling during the particular chapter.

 

[Rezcore]

I have found the best method for me is to have a chapter "theme" and few key events. The rest of the chapter is mostly freestyle and improv. I was just wonder how some of y'all plan yours so I can improve and refine my own. My current method was devised as I wrote my first story (Delirious Degeneracy: Tales of the free | Scribble Hub) and shines quite well through my second one (Chronicles of the Overly Optimistic Uzumaki Twins | Scribble Hub).

So, how do you write your chapters?

so my upcoming novel uses a 3 tier set-up; the overall plot, the seasonal arc, and the chapter episode. i plan the story of each chapter based on the them of the seasonal arc, then utterly wing it