Writing Hypothesis: II

Last time we chatted I told you about my "Ideas" File. It occurred to me that not everyone would understand the importance of keeping the idea brief.

In keeping the Idea less than eight words it stays an idea, still a full sentence, but nothing evolved. In a single story I might revisit my "Idea's" several times.

When an Idea takes on a paragraph it becomes a "Thesis", in a thesis you lay out a thought, or argument towards the study of something or an event.

Taking Ideas and developing them into Thesis is a great tool for writing, not just because you can evolve an idea in many different directions but because it gets you thinking, most importantly it gets you writing!

Taking my earlier "Idea":

Idea: Aliens land in Paris

Thesis: After centuries of studying humans, human biology and human culture, the long lived race from the Cygnus nebula descended on Paris just in time for fall fashion week.

You see how that evolved? Beyond an Idea as a Thesis the thought starts to take direction.

When I am having a hard time with my writing I will often visit my "Ideas" file and take one and evolve it in as many directions as I can. When I run out of steam my new collection of Thesis' will be moved to a file labeled "Tidbits" and they might stay there for a long time.

But it keeps me writing, it exorcizes my mind.