The opening of a novel is famously the thing that changes the most over the course of writing a novel (and I’m not just talking about the classic instinct to fiddle with the opening pages eternally as a form of procrastination to avoid actually writing the damn thing).
Interesting, I always struggle to spread out my thoughts, boxing everything under 2k words. I’ve stared at short stories unable to see how they need to be longer so I can at least submit to calls that begin from 2000 words onwards. My biggest fear is that my “novel” will end up being only 30k words 🙈
I always love hearing from other writers. Our processes are always so different. In all fairness despite my tendency tends to go to the big ideas, my stories always continue to grow with each re-write. My first drafts are always much more sparse than the final. After I have the rough sketch of the plot down I feel more able to add flashy descriptions and deepen the sub-plots. Perhaps under writing is your case too? Or perhaps you are meant to write novellas and flash fiction! At the end of the day I truly believe that stories will tell you how long they want to be.
Interesting, I always struggle to spread out my thoughts, boxing everything under 2k words. I’ve stared at short stories unable to see how they need to be longer so I can at least submit to calls that begin from 2000 words onwards. My biggest fear is that my “novel” will end up being only 30k words 🙈
I always love hearing from other writers. Our processes are always so different. In all fairness despite my tendency tends to go to the big ideas, my stories always continue to grow with each re-write. My first drafts are always much more sparse than the final. After I have the rough sketch of the plot down I feel more able to add flashy descriptions and deepen the sub-plots. Perhaps under writing is your case too? Or perhaps you are meant to write novellas and flash fiction! At the end of the day I truly believe that stories will tell you how long they want to be.