Message Board Topic For 8/16

[Comicality]

 

Ideas. They just pop into an author's head out of nowhere. Sometimes inspired by a certain mood or current situation. Sometimes they come from an old memory, or another story, or maybe just some cutie that you see riding the train on your way to work. But ideas for stories are as limitless as life itself.

 

Naturally...ALL of these stories don't get written. If they did, every library on the planet would be bursting wide open at the doors!

 

So the question this week is...what do you writers do with all of your unwritten ideas? Do you just keep them in mind? Do you keep notes? Do you forget about them? Or do you wait for them to evolve?

 

What bridge does an unwritten idea have to cross for you, as a writer, to put it on the page? (Or the screen, as the case may be) Let us know!

 

 

[Johnathan Colourfield]

Hehe

 

Well this is an interesting one

 

I generally try to use all my ideas but as with a few stories they die about halfway so i finish them.

 

I have a story that has been in planning for months and i will be starting writing soon.

 

Theres also my other novel which i've been saving up for I've kept notes but i want it to be perfect and when i'm older i'll write it. Its pretty much an autobiography.

 

For a story to be written for me, it has to jump out at me and make me think about the characters.

 

E.g. Angel. It jumped out at me during a conversation about some stories from Nephylim and i wrote the first chapter in an hour and the rest just sprung out from there 41k in and i really can't see an end yet

[Nephylim]

Generally when an idea comes to me it is a complete vision. I am posessed by it and can't help but write it. That's fine but if I'm working on something else at the time then that gets shoved aside for the new one. Then I go back to the first one, read through it from the start and get the blast of what comes next. That is, of course, unless another new one is unleashed on me.