Showing posts with label ideas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ideas. Show all posts

Saturday, January 22, 2011

The Process

So, I've decided that I'm not going to do prewriting for any of these fragments. I'm only going to let myself sit down at the computer and compose whatever comes to me from the prompt (or occasionally an unprompted idea).

I really need to work on my habit of planning something to death.

I also wanted to make the notation that the prompts in The Writer's Block: 186 Ideas to Jump-Start Your Imagination does not give page numbers. So the prompts will have to stand on their own.

The Premise for This Blog

My fiction often comes to me in very random, sporadic ways. So, I'm going to catalogue my ideas and fragments of fiction here. Some pieces may stand alone and some may be continued. The continuance of pieces may well be influenced by the feedback that I get.

Also, many of these may be the results of prompts. When they are, I will cite the book and page number from which the prompt came.

So, here's to the creative person's non-linear way of thinking.