A writing question

[kronette.livejournal.com]

As you're writing, does anyone else have trouble reading their story as if you had no knowledge of it? I keep getting stuck because I'll have whole passages written, then realize I haven't explained or described anything because it was crystal clear in my head. I (sometimes) know the outcome of the story when I'm working on the beginning, so I have the endgame in my head as I'm writing, but that doesn't always translate into actual descriptive words.

Anyone else have this problem, or am I just an overly visual person trying to relay what I see in my head onto (virtual) paper?

Comments

[metalkatt.livejournal.com]

It's not just you, I can assure you. I'll get this way, too, especially if a lot's going on at once in my head. What I end up doing is going back and treating what I have as an outline, and then 'rewinding' the mental scene so I can pause it here and there to get the background stuff.

Oh, Eddie. I always think of that icon when I get done with something and have to put it away to age before I can do anything useful with.

[kronette.livejournal.com]

The last time I put a story away to age it was five months. I really don't want to think on this one that long, especially since I've been thinking about it for a year. I need an invention that will hook into my brain and describe what it is I'm seeing in my head directly into the computer. It would save so much time (and be very frightening).