Hah! Score one more point for the shower stall as an indispensable writer’s tool.
For the last three days, I’ve known a few vague outlines of some ideas I want to write a story about, but couldn’t come up with anything better than those blurry notions. Today, while I was thinking about them while shampooing my head, I finally identified what I wanted out of them, and in enough focus to combine them into a three-word premise. (Or, come to think of it, a different three words, if I’m allowed to use published authours’ last names.) And now that I’ve done that, I’m extrapolating a host of details and new sub-ideas to play with.
I used an old outline as the basis for IO.SYS, and was starting to wonder if I’d need to look into creativity-workshop stuff to kick my brain back into gear. Now I’ve got my authorial confidence back. :)
(And /now/ all I have to worry about is whether I’ll be able to tell the difference between “not depressed” and “manic-to-hypomanic state”. But that’s a much more tolerable problem than before, so no complaints. ;) )
Hah! Score one more point for the shower stall as an indispensable writer’s tool.
For the last three days, I’ve known a few vague outlines of some ideas I want to write a story about, but couldn’t come up with anything better than those blurry notions. Today, while I was thinking about them while shampooing my head, I finally identified what I wanted out of them, and in enough focus to combine them into a three-word premise. (Or, come to think of it, a different three words, if I’m allowed to use published authours’ last names.) And now that I’ve done that, I’m extrapolating a host of details and new sub-ideas to play with.
I used an old outline as the basis for IO.SYS, and was starting to wonder if I’d need to look into creativity-workshop stuff to kick my brain back into gear. Now I’ve got my authorial confidence back. :)
(And /now/ all I have to worry about is whether I’ll be able to tell the difference between “not depressed” and “manic-to-hypomanic state”. But that’s a much more tolerable problem than before, so no complaints. ;) )