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March 8, 2014

How To Get More Story Ideas (otherwise known as: How To Tap Into the Elusive "Everywhere")

If you are like most yet-to-be-published writers, you attempt to learn all you can from the successful career authors any chance you get. This often includes reading magazine articles, interviews, and online articles about them, and sometimes even traveling to who-knows-where to meet them live and in-person at some sort of writer's conference or author signing. If you have done any of the above, you know very well and good that one of the absolute most common (and most utterly annoying) ... View Post

Filed Under: 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself, The Learning Curve, Writing Tagged With: exercise, idea origins, novel!muse, plot process, realization, story formation, story origins, the plan, writing

May 7, 2009

The Strange World of Story Formation: Guardian Angel

So one of the reasons I wanted to keep this journal was to be able to record how some of my stories progress, especially in the beginning, because as often happens after I work on something for an extended period of time, I forget how I ever came up with the idea, or how it ever developed into what it was currently, because I do remember it turns out nothing like it began, just can't remember how.  Heh.For instance, the idea I've been talking about quite a bit lately, Lady in ... View Post

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