My New Process

Here we are, and it's not November. So I can write with a little more breathing in between words. In November my process is to write like the fiends of hell have me by the throat, whatever words come to mind, and never look back, but now here's what I seem to be doing:

1. Write a paragrah in sort of a slow way, taking an idea or image and turning it over a few times.
2. Go back and delete most of the adjectives and as many other words as possible. Leave a few words that have specificity.
3. Add something weird or push some existing element to an extreme.
4. Make sure the last sentence is very flat.

I'm seeing each paragraph as a completely separate thing... with lines of dialogue in between the paragraphs. And I'm not putting more than two lines of dialogue together at a time. It's almost like I'm back to the insane three sections / three pages / fat paragraphs on the page compulsion, but this time I have the time to actually make it work, and now it's without the threes.