Confessions of Fangirl

I’m feeling a little better. The headache is now low level and the tiredness is now more like a general sleepiness so I’m thankful for that.

I read something the other day about writing that’s been sort of niggling at my brain. Not in a bad way, just generally popping up as part of my awareness as I go about my day. I could be quoting it incorrectly and for the life of me I can’t remember where I read it. I’m sure that it’s something I can google it later which I probably will later, but right now I just want to talk about the quote. Because if I go googling it, I will get distracted and I will not write about it and instead go on a google wormhole, or whatever.

So anyway, the quote was something like “Come to the scene late and leave the scene early.”

I don’t know if I’ve heard it before and just never really gotten it lodged in my head or if I just hadn’t heard it before now, but I don’t remember hearing it before. Right now though, it’s become something that’s popped into my head while I listen to books or read or watch TV or movies. The “coming to the scene late” thing I haven’t noticed as much, mostly because I think that happens a little more naturally, at least to me. I often come into things “in the middle” of something when I’m writing. However, “leaving the scene early” is where my brain keeps catching. I’ve always had to feel like I have to properly wrap up a scene in order to leave it and I sincerely struggle to do that. And maybe I should just stop trying to do that and instead cut the scene off before I think I should. I think it might solve some of the issues I’ve been running into.

It’s funny because I’ve noticed the whole “leaving early” thing in some of my favorite books and in the movies I’ve been watching and I just find it really interesting. I’ve often noticed when a scene leaves me feeling like I didn’t get enough of it and I get thrown into the next one. It’s interesting because I notice that it does, in fact, leave me feeling a little bit frustrated, but also eager to listen on so I can get the information the last scene didn’t give me. It’s something I’m going to need to practice I think, but I’m really curious if it’s something I can figure out how to use. I wanted to finish that one story this week but I haven’t added to it in a couple of days so maybe I’ll try using that technique on there tonight or tomorrow. I work tomorrow but I’m hoping that I’ll have time to work on it when I’m at the desk.