Story Ideas Are Not Something I Lack
May. 24th, 2009 11:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
abracanabraI went to the program activity, "Write Here!" which had some writing exercises (character-creation, round robin writing, and all starting from the same story idea) etc that resulted in not one, but two story germs that had expanded a bit beyond what a usual germ is allowed--about a page in each case.
I really should have remembered that I am pathologically incapable of leaving a story unfinished.*
I don't have this problem with the story seeds I create, so maybe I'll try to categorize them like that in my mind. I don't know, though--they took on a little more life than I usually let my story seeds get. But I don't really need to write an alien-invasion story, or a humorous fantasy about a way-too-easygoing dragon.
* No, really. I have one unfinished story that I gave up on because I decided it was fatally flawed. It sits in a file in my filing cabinet, and it still bothers me. Someday, I'll go back and finish it. I know this. Note that this doesn't mean I finish things soon, just that someday, they will eventually be done.
I really should have remembered that I am pathologically incapable of leaving a story unfinished.*
I don't have this problem with the story seeds I create, so maybe I'll try to categorize them like that in my mind. I don't know, though--they took on a little more life than I usually let my story seeds get. But I don't really need to write an alien-invasion story, or a humorous fantasy about a way-too-easygoing dragon.
* No, really. I have one unfinished story that I gave up on because I decided it was fatally flawed. It sits in a file in my filing cabinet, and it still bothers me. Someday, I'll go back and finish it. I know this. Note that this doesn't mean I finish things soon, just that someday, they will eventually be done.