Thursday, January 10, 2013

Write what you know, cont. So Yeah.....

So I was thinking about my last post, and decided that I needed to amend what I said.

I do not disagree with writing about what you know, but I do think that you need to be creative about it. With the stuff that I was exposed to growing I and my own personal interests I could write an awesome spy novel if I were inclined, but most days I'm not.

That doesn't mean that you don't have the material, just that you need to change your approach.

So like many writers I was looking at what I have done before to find inspiration now, I was stunned its starting to work, the ideas started flowing again like they haven't in years.

But now, like I did then I had a journal with me now and I started writing it all down. If I trusted the internet to keep a secret I would post my idea list here, but I don't so you'll have to imagine a five point bullet list of awesomeness.

I wish I could explain the almost spiritual warmth I experienced when I realized I had successfully started reclaiming my writing.

Having the ideas is just a beginning, I have to develop them. It was when I started scribbling in my Journal that I realized that I have a process.

A formula if you will.

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