how do you do words?

[certainthings]

When you write stories, how do you do it?

Do the characters talk to you and tell you what they want to say and what actions they want to engage in and such.

Or.

Do you force them into situations, tell them what to say and how they're going to say it?

Can you feel the story as you're writing or do you feel it after? Do you feel your story at all?

Tell me all things about how you write, please.

Comments

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

That's how I do it as well, on the few occasions that I write my 'fictional conversations' and they rarely talk to me for longer than a couple of sentences each. I feel that were I to 'force' them to talk, it'd start coming out as, "And then"

I like the way you describe that there, though about the scribes and puppeteers.