@pretensesoup

Unusually, my current novel has three! I'm usually a #WriteOnce author, but this blasted novel has not worked until I figured out the key. I will be starting over on Monday and I anticipate I'll be back to one-and-done again. Phew!

@adaddinsane @sfwrtr @allisonwyss
I #WriteOnce. I know where my story is going pretty much from the beginning. (This is helped by the fact that I'm a heavy plotter, of course.)

But also, I just know where I'm going and what I want to have happen (and what the characters need to do to *make* that happen.)

I'm doing editing and alpha reading for a friend writing his first novel, and wow, is his process different. He's a WriteManyTimes sort of dude. It's startling what a difference it makes. 1/?

@adaddinsane @JoanGrey @allisonwyss I did not wish to frustrate you! However, the "Just no structural changes. No adding or removing character arcs" is definitive for #writeOnce. This is a good standard.

Whilst I do some of those things, I do them while writing the story forward and by the time I read the end, it's done.

Writing Wonders Day 3/31. Have you ever written alternative endings for yourself?

...nope.

Seems like a waste of time to me, when I could be writing the next book.

I do usually have a vague idea of the end, so I have a direction to head, but even that can change.

My best example of that is when I pantsed a 100K crime thriller with a twist ending I didn't see coming. And it was perfect.

#writeOnce #writingWonders #writingCommunity

@adaddinsane @JoanGrey @allisonwyss Because it is fun to ask 😈​, if you spin off a side story from a main story and publish it first, are you still a #writeonce author?

@sfwrtr @JoanGrey @allisonwyss

Also my wife is a #writeOnce author (as she pointed out).

My book REBEL DRAGON is now at #20 in the UK Fantasy chart, once again zipping past the Return of the King.

I'm sure the natural order will re-assert itself in a day or so, but it's always nice .

And I have 438 reviews/ratings averaging 4.5*. Plus a 60% readthrough to the rest of the series.

#writingCommunity #writeOnce

@adaddinsane @JoanGrey @allisonwyss So I can join the club! Yay!

As for the novel rewrites, I'm doing one in a microcosm. I found a compelling novelette I wrote in another medium and have started adapting it to the #sff universe I #amwriting for commercial release. If you've being following my responses to writing wonders, this one will star my #antagonist Rainy Days as the #protagonist in 1st person. So far it's a lot of transcription and translation, but some parts simply won't work and will have to be reimagined. Not sure if that's #writeOnce or not. 😇​

@allisonwyss @orionkidder @sfwrtr

#writeOnce

@allisonwyss @adaddinsane @JoanGrey I won't be able to join the #writeOnce club, sadly. I am going to be rewriting 5 or 6 novels originally completed in 3rd person when I burnt-out in 2001 to 1st person. Not sure how that's going to go, yet. Looking forward to retirement so I have the time to do this.

@JoanGrey @allisonwyss

We can start with a hashtag #writeOnce works for that 🙂