tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010942979784569627.post8598441619497658791..comments2024-02-06T04:20:38.551-08:00Comments on Reading, Writing, Revising: Where Do I Get My Ideas, Please?Lisa Ecksteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11469107523441985396noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010942979784569627.post-45532162272082343202021-07-30T12:09:21.927-07:002021-07-30T12:09:21.927-07:00This post didn't end up saying anything much a...This post didn't end up saying anything much about what I'm doing to brainstorm, but some of it's related to what you describe. I've written down a lot of random ideas over the years, and there are a bunch of half-formed story concepts I find myself mentally returning to a lot, so I've been trying to pull some of that together. Thinking about what might be combined, examining ideas from different angles, stuff like that.<br /><br />It's good to know that being more diligent about writing down ideas has been helpful for you. That's making me think about better ways to organize my own note-taking.<br />Lisa Ecksteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11469107523441985396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6010942979784569627.post-33460029404430404522021-07-30T05:20:30.352-07:002021-07-30T05:20:30.352-07:00I started capturing even many of the ideas I would...I started capturing even many of the ideas I would have once let slide by. I can get to my big list in Evernote quickly, and some of the ideas are barely anything, but in knowing I can get them down with others quickly has been kind of self replicating where they just happen.<br /><br />I know part of that is from doing a fiction podcast and knowing I have to keep writing (or at least wanting to keep at it...it's not like I MUST produce constantly for the show). So between being open to ideas and then hitting new thoughts with, "What if?" from many angles, I have more ideas than I've ever had.<br /><br />Granted, I still have to make them more than what they are, but in visiting the big list, it seems every time I do, I add a bit more to the ideas that interest me most. In that way, it's like a nursery of incubating ideas, where sometimes some hatch and end up on the show.Christopher Gronlundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16835103557224226930noreply@blogger.com