![]() ![]() It’s a free-form idea mapping program made by the same people behind Scrivener. I have all sorts of ideas that have started to flow out of me since writing about the picture above. So back to my original point, before I lose anyone, I discovered a new tool yesterday that has come in handy during this early stage. I really don’t seem to be able to get away from Pithea and its world (not that I mind too much). This is the picture in question…all because I was trying not to make it about the storm that actually caused that.īut where I had hoped to come up with ideas for a story that isn’t even in the same world as my others, this one really just ended up being an idea for events that would happen 1000ish years before my other stories. However, because of this issue, I went such an odd direction with one of the pictures that it just may have turned into something for me. I still did my best, but I’m not sure it was as effective as it could have been. ![]() After a few days of doing a few of those activities during my writing time, I realized that it was difficult to use my imagination on certain pictures in which I knew what was happening or who the people were. So I decided to take my own advice and do the activities in my own story seed posts, free writing in the hopes that a new idea would spark. Also, because I have two novels already written in the aforementioned story world, and both are still in revision stages, I figured there was no need to add another story that will just sit on the shelf for years while I finish the first two. But that’s not quite the same as starting from scratch. Of course they’ve changed shape along the way, and plenty of new elements have been added recently. My current writing projects are all stories I started crafting years ago. There can be a lot of joy in the discovery, and that’s something I haven’t had much lately. But when I posted the first list of story seeds, I started thinking about how long it’s been since I’ve started a story from scratch. I have maybe 2/3 of a completed outline for a story I was planning to write this year. I’m still in the early stages of that, and to be honest, I’m not sure that what I’m working on is going to be for NaNoWriMo. If you’ve been following my steps for preparing a story for NaNoWriMo from scratch, you may be doing the same thing I’m doing right now–trying to pull a plot together. This year, I’m already learning, and November hasn’t even arrived. I always say I learn something new every year of doing NaNoWriMo–something about myself as a writer, something about writing in general, or new tips or strategies for NaNoWriMo. ![]()
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