[stylist] Story development strategy?

[Brad Dunse']

.  At the end of an audio  book I read  a while back they had an 
interview with the author. He was saying with his writing he develops 
the storyline as he writes, puts little to no forethought in the 
story and felt it to be more interesting to a reader that way. To be 
honest I don't recall his name but he had a series of books out and 
was signed with a book deal not self-publishing.

While his story over all in the end was pretty good, I took double 
takes on some of the emotional areas of the book. Only slightly 
exaggerating here he spent an inordanant amount of time with the main 
character begging, gravveling, pleading and balling his eyes out over 
a person he was semik-close to in the story. It kept cropping up a 
number of times.  It was getting to the point my wife and I were 
laughing "Oh no, not again going on and on and on and on with the 
girl", who wasn't even a large character in the book other than real 
estate used up on her. But when his dad died, who he had a good 
relationship with, it was something like "Oh yeah, and dad died. Then 
I applied for a job atso and so's place..."

So my question is on large projects, do you have an outline or at 
least know the big picture of the twists and turns leaving 
flexibility for creative twists or improvs? Or do you just wing it as 
you go and ride the keyboard to the end?

I do the latter in songwriting with my instrument but those are short 
lived and one point or themed writings even if they are a story song.

It seemed to me an editor did a major booboo missing the emotional 
ratio and proportion factor with some of the characters and event 
emphasis in this authors project.

Brad



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