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My dad found something called the Snowflake Method when one of his f-listers made a post about their experience using it.
I looked it over, found it interesting, and decided to implement it for one of my own stories. This particular story started out life as a Veronica Mars fanfic that quickly decided it wanted to be original fiction, so I went scrambling to make it original and not just filing off the serial numbers. And then it decided that it wants to be set in college instead of high school, even though the ten thousand words that I’ve written is set in high school.
So I decided what better way to try to figure out what the hell to do with this story (that is actually part of a series) than to try this Snowflake Method?
So I sat down to do it. And about twelve hours later, I have 2,000 words in outline and 3,000 words in character outline, and I’m still going strong on Step 5, and I love it. Seriously. I think I’m going to do it for every freaking story.
On a side note, I’m kinda unnerved when the guy says to take an hour to write a sentence and it takes me two minutes, and then he says to take another hour to turn that sentence into a paragraph and it takes me seven, and then he says to take an hour each to do character stuff, and it takes me fifteen minutes each, and then he says to take several hours to turn each sentence from my paragraph into a paragraph of its own and it takes me about twenty minutes. Should I be worried? Does this mean that I’m not taking it seriously enough and not taking the time I should be taking?
Here’s an article that explains the Snowflake Method.
My summary that I work off of is a lot shorter. I hope that people find this as helpful as I have.
( Succinct Snowflake )
I looked it over, found it interesting, and decided to implement it for one of my own stories. This particular story started out life as a Veronica Mars fanfic that quickly decided it wanted to be original fiction, so I went scrambling to make it original and not just filing off the serial numbers. And then it decided that it wants to be set in college instead of high school, even though the ten thousand words that I’ve written is set in high school.
So I decided what better way to try to figure out what the hell to do with this story (that is actually part of a series) than to try this Snowflake Method?
So I sat down to do it. And about twelve hours later, I have 2,000 words in outline and 3,000 words in character outline, and I’m still going strong on Step 5, and I love it. Seriously. I think I’m going to do it for every freaking story.
On a side note, I’m kinda unnerved when the guy says to take an hour to write a sentence and it takes me two minutes, and then he says to take another hour to turn that sentence into a paragraph and it takes me seven, and then he says to take an hour each to do character stuff, and it takes me fifteen minutes each, and then he says to take several hours to turn each sentence from my paragraph into a paragraph of its own and it takes me about twenty minutes. Should I be worried? Does this mean that I’m not taking it seriously enough and not taking the time I should be taking?
Here’s an article that explains the Snowflake Method.
My summary that I work off of is a lot shorter. I hope that people find this as helpful as I have.
( Succinct Snowflake )
