That bolded part is exactly what happens to me.I'm a pantser and a linear storyteller. Once or twice I have written a scene out of sequence because I was just dying to write it--and it ended up being re-written many, many times because by the time I worked the linear narrative up to that point, the original version didn't work, but I was so attached to it I couldn't imagine any other way for the scene to work. Thus do I flounder.
So, I have learned my lesson. But everybody is different and many people write out of order.
And let me tell you a story about a recent experience I had writing out of sequence.
I spent Thursday and Friday squeezing out three of the last five chapters of my wip. Then yesterday, while I was digging through the many open files in one of my (many) word processors, I came across those same scenes written in different words. "WTF?" I said.
A little reading roused my laggardly memory. Checking the date on the file told me loud and clear that I'd written the chapters nine months ago. I then uttered many colorful words. Those (old) chapters are good. Maybe better than the ones I just wasted two days on. I will now spend more days deciding which to keep. And, knowing how I operate, I will probably do a lot of cutting, and pasting, and more time wasting.
I knew it!. . . it sounds like you've stolen my brain.
Well, don't forget those out-of-sequence scenes.In my current project I wrote a few out-of-sequence scenes and even a couple chapters that I hope to include in the final manuscript, but just recently started at the beginning and have been writing in that direction to see what happens to my characters as they work together.
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