Comments on: Harnessing the chaos of Story ADD

By: Writing Links in the 3s and 5…7/12/16 – Where Worlds Collide

Writing Links in the 3s and 5…7/12/16 – Where Worlds Collide — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 11:02:49 +0000

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By: Zan Marie

Zan Marie — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 12:05:29 +0000

I <3 story squirrels! But I do have to write them down. I have one polished WIP, two more stories in the series, and two stand alones that I'm working on in round robin fashion. Whatever's active gets the time. That is, until I need to buckle down and edit on one. The others have to make do with notes. 😉

By: Erin Bartels

Erin Bartels — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 13:28:15 +0000

I have enough idea to keep me busy for the next ten years at least. The problem is carving out the time to write them all before they go stale.

By: LauraDrake

LauraDrake — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 10:36:57 +0000

In reply to authorelisemanion. Reading all these comments, I finally get why non-writers think we're odd...story squirrels and characters conspiring to hijack a plot.... We ARE odd! And isn't it the most amazing thing EVER?!!

By: LauraDrake

LauraDrake — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 10:30:36 +0000

In reply to Orly Konig-Lopez. Ha, Orly - I've heard of 'process envy' - I think we just created a new one... NUT ENVY! I so envy your nuts...

By: littlemissw

littlemissw — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 02:05:40 +0000

My story ideas are more like fish. They emerge from the gloom, catch my attention with their sparkling scales and then sink back down into the depths. Before I have time to catch that one another one shimmers past. I have learnt to relax - I figure if it's important the idea will come back to me.

By: Orly Konig-Lopez

Orly Konig-Lopez — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 00:52:17 +0000

In reply to Fae Rowen. That must have been a fun trip down memory lane to see how far you've come! :-)

By: Orly Konig-Lopez

Orly Konig-Lopez — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 00:49:00 +0000

In reply to Normandie Fischer (@WritingOnBoard). I knew we were kindred souls, Normandie! Enjoy the kids and grandkids and boats. Wish I was on that boat with you. :-)

By: Normandie Fischer (@WritingOnBoard)

Normandie Fischer (@WritingOnBoard) — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 00:43:32 +0000

Whoa, Orly, and I thought I had a lot of them floating around. In my women's fiction world, Scrivener has two developing at once after one set of characters threw the others out when the second set demanded too much story space. And I've another in the romantic suspense group that keeps poking at me with a knife. Toss in the fact that it's summer, which means kids and grandkids and boats and the Cape (my cape, not the famous one). There's just way too much to do.

By: Fae Rowen

Fae Rowen — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 19:36:45 +0000

This must be squirrel season, Orly. First in Yosemite, then prairie dogs, kind-of-wanna-be-squirrels, in Texas, and now squirrels at home on my hikes.I get characters in my head, not stories. Once I listen to the characters long enough, I've got their stories. I used to write the ideas on bits of paper. Yes, we all know where those went. Now I either type them into an IDEAS file on my computer or on my phone. In fact, last week I was going through some phone files and found the book ideas notes. Good thing--I'd forgotten about them And my WIP crib notes were there! How it's grown. Thanks for a smile and a reminder today.