I have this technique where I write the bones (make the loom) and then go and add details (the threads, the colour), continuously passing back and forth until I have something that resembles a story. Great post and great analogy. xx
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RE: Writing Tip #6: How Writing Fiction Is Like Weaving
I'm glad you took the analogy and ran with it, @riverflows! That's really a great strategy to "write down the bones" as Natalie Goldberg famously wrote. It's too easy, otherwise, to spend all your time perfecting the first few paragraphs and never move forward.