weirdly easier for me to come up with full plots (with a central conflict and resolution) instead of just premises if someone else provides a prompt, wonder why?🤔
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we've been doing a low-key asynch writing workshop type thing at where posts a prompt every week in the #astonishing-workshops channel and we write a treatment or something, it's kinda fun... join in if that's your sort of thing
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fiction writing feels so much more "integral calculus" to me than nonfiction, which is more like differential. You can kinda write nonfiction in improv, 1-step look-ahead dy/dx=f'(x) mode, but fiction needs you to at some point have the whole y=f(x) function pop into your head
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the analogy is quite close... when you do an indefinite integral, you end up with an unbound constant that makes it not quite a complete answer... but a definite integral needs its limits defined, which is like needing to know the beginning and ending to finish a story
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this is not a plotter/pantser thing... even if you're pantsing your way through, you need a snowballing sense of the whole
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