(Thanks, Stevie Turner, for the inspiration for this post! )
Everybody has at least one. Only one if they are lucky. One in the kitchen (pencils, twist-ties, battteries, keys, etc.), one in the workshop (old bolts, screws, extra IKEA parts, allen wrenchs), well, you get the idea.
Writers are the same. I know I always have ideas floating around that if I don’t write them down, I’ll lose them. So I jot them down. A title: Sometimes They Leave, an opening line: “It was a dark and stormy night…”, or a catchy elevator pitch: Rambo moves in with Sheldon Cooper. Oh, the shenanigans!
Without ideas, there’s no possibility of a creation. Here’s a glimpse into Mr. Einstein’s notebook:
I suspect that many of my ideas won’t go any further than just that, but there is always a chance that I’ll be inspired to revisit one of those ideas and it will become the next greatest—well, maybe just the next story. To quote the philosopher Lloyd Christmas: “So, you’re saying there’s a chance?”
***Addendum Feb. 9
I just had another thought. As a writer, all my ideas have a chance at becoming a story. It’s just that some have a better chance than others. Want to bet on the longshot?
“Three life-long friends discover that they are identical twins during their annual road trip to the Twine and Jute collectors convention in Wichita.”
Sounds like a best seller to me.
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I know what it is like to abandon ideas, i get too many. hang in there!
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I like to think of them as “in the queue.” 😉
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😁 we all have those junk drawers. Mine is a binder full of brief thoughts on post its, I call the my starter fluid.
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Starter fluid. I like that!
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Thanks for the link to my blog, Leon.
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No matter how many I finish, I always have the same number unfinished. It’s like a tap that fills the sink at the same rate as the drain empties it.
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Not a bad problem to have!
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I have several junk drawers. They irritate me even if they are useful. Those loose ideas irritate me to.
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So true. And i never even mentioned my laptop folders. You try to organize, but…
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I like the idea of a junk drawer for writing idea. A junk folder when you store ideas to come back to later. That makes great sense. A great post.
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I probably have more quick writing prompt writings than ideas, and I have no idea if they’ll grow in a story or not.
Blog hop sounds great, but I’m never very good at following instructions and I’m not on Twitter.
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Neither is a requirement! Jump in.
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I have a file I keep for one-line ideas and sometimes I start them and then leave them in their own file. Maybe someday. Often, if an idea comes to me without a character to tell the story, I know I’ll probably never write it. But then sometimes, even years later, a character will start telling that story. So, the ideas are worth hanging onto. They’re not abandoned. They’re simply hanging out in the wings for their audition.
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Reblogged this on aurorawatcherak.
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I have a junk drawer file, too. I also have one for each book that I toss stuff in that may or may not go back in the book. Or be made into a separate story. You never know.
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