On Writing

 
I feel like I've recently made a major breakthrough in my writing.

When I first started it was about recording actions and motivations.

Next came the emotions behind the actions and motivations, and showing those without telling.

Now I feel like I've gone through the other side of the mirror, where the way the words fit with the other words is almost as important, where I think about the placement of a comma or the break of a paragraph.  I'm using more "run-on" sentences, and more fragmented sentences.  

I still don't do any sort of major "rewrite" on anything. Period.  But I'll go back through a chapter of the Homeless!verse before I post it and fidget with it and feel that it's measurably better than when I started.

 

I thank my husband for the change in the way I think, because after so long of him trying to hit that in his own writing, and me reading and critiqueing his work, I feel like we almost hit this point together. It's kinda neat.  I sure wouldn't have done it without him, at this point in my writing.

Fic: "In From the Cold" J2 AU rated-R Ch. 4/?

I feel like there should be a header block here, but y'all know what it is and who I am and whatever.

But um, here, have some Homeless!Jensen.

Beta-ed and prompted by Embroiderama


( Jeff settles in, sniper-still, to watch the clinic door and wait. )