Naarmare:
Talk about getting more information than you bargained for!... But thanks. It was enlightening, and I wasn't quite right in my guessing.
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I often feel less as if I'm writing this story and more as if this story is simply using me to get written....Is this something that's a common experience? How much time do you spend, either directly or peripherally, thinking about your stories? Planning for them? Plotting?
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I take a Jungian point of view on your first question; I like to think it's also Tolkienian. Yes, the story writes (and rights) me at least as much as I write (and right) it. I wouldn't have it any other way. I used to obssess on the story, but don't anymore. Not that I've somehow become better, it's just that having joined a local writers' group, and now an on line one, plus having other responsibilities, I just have to wait until I can get to it. When I do, it's total focus. In my current revision, I am doing far much more planning and plotting than ever. This is because most of the plot and character are already there in the first six or seven versions, and it's time to cut and splice and fill in where needed in order to make it work as story. There's still going to be some fresh writing because of some new stuff, which by the way has got me stopped at the moment (thanks a lot Nar [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] ), but that's okay. As soon as I have it figured out what a certain professor is going to say and not say, and when a certain faerie princess is going to be revealed, and how pushy my protagonist is going to be, I'll be able to move on. (Like I said, thanks a lot Nar [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ).