Fellow authors: to what extent does your work write itself? How

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i once had the experience of my characters deciding to take a side-trip to a market, and it threatened to derail the entire narrative. i struggled, got them back on track, and later i discovered that the market trip was absolutely necessary and foreshadowed three important aspects of the story.

how can a person write when important aspects of it develop unconsciously? that'd be like starting to bake a cake without knowing how you were going to get it into the oven.

tl;dr, STUPID BRAIN, BE MORE CONSISTENT

>>8997536
Kill yourself, tumblr faggess.

>>8997544
don't feel too bad that the school newspaper wouldn't publish your poem. next time, don't use Hawkwind lyrics and pretend you wrote them, Andrew.

I... I don't want to enjoy this nasty old typewriter... but my hands keep moving on their own

>>8997209

>cosmic influence
Of all the memes, I like this one the least. If you don't know where the story is going, you don't have anything to say, and if you don't have anything to say, you shouldn't be writing yet.

I plot my stories from beginning to end, then write a treatment, do a few outlines, break the flow of the best outline into chapters, then do character development, scene-setting & purple prose at the very end. This ensures cohesion and makes editing much faster, as well as making symbolism easy to pepper in as needed.

>inb4 naturalistic fallacy

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>>8998120
Gunna utilize a story I'm trying to develop this way, thanks for advice Anon

>>8998135

Good luck fampai

Just remember that it'll seem like much drier work for the bulk of it, and only the last few edits will be aesthetically pleasing. You're sacrificing spontaneity and fun for speed.