And yes, many times! I always have a backlog of ideas across my various settings/characters so I used some of those. My routine was writing each story one day in advance so every day I'd edit the story going out that day, then think about & write the next story. Sleeping over it helped a lot but idea generation was definitely o…
And yes, many times! I always have a backlog of ideas across my various settings/characters so I used some of those. My routine was writing each story one day in advance so every day I'd edit the story going out that day, then think about & write the next story. Sleeping over it helped a lot but idea generation was definitely one of the hardest parts of the challenge. At some point I even tried to reverse-engineer a system for it, a sort of formula I could follow. Didn't work.
That being said, I did notice that if I write more, I also get more ideas... so it wasn't as hard as you might imagine? (Hard to explain, maybe.)
That's great, and I totally get that about writing more = writing more. It's something I've heard from others, too.
This year, I devoted myself to doing morning pages of whatever falls out of my brain. 40,000 words of ramblings so far, but it's kept the writing organ well fed :)
Thank you!
And yes, many times! I always have a backlog of ideas across my various settings/characters so I used some of those. My routine was writing each story one day in advance so every day I'd edit the story going out that day, then think about & write the next story. Sleeping over it helped a lot but idea generation was definitely one of the hardest parts of the challenge. At some point I even tried to reverse-engineer a system for it, a sort of formula I could follow. Didn't work.
That being said, I did notice that if I write more, I also get more ideas... so it wasn't as hard as you might imagine? (Hard to explain, maybe.)
That's great, and I totally get that about writing more = writing more. It's something I've heard from others, too.
This year, I devoted myself to doing morning pages of whatever falls out of my brain. 40,000 words of ramblings so far, but it's kept the writing organ well fed :)