Comments on: Divine Inspiration… Or Not: Mining Your Life for Story https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/05/mining-your-life-for-story/ A Blog On Writing Wed, 29 Jan 2025 05:31:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Top Picks Thursday! For Writers & Readers 05-18-2017 | The Author Chronicles https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/05/mining-your-life-for-story/#comment-127167 Thu, 18 May 2017 17:04:08 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=31585#comment-127167 […] it be getting a new idea or figuring out where to start the novel. Kate Moretti tells how to mine your life for story ideas, and Linda K. Sienkiewicz shows where to start your […]

]]> By: annawillett https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/05/mining-your-life-for-story/#comment-127127 Wed, 17 May 2017 15:19:26 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=31585#comment-127127 In reply to Kate Moretti.

An affair book! That makes it much sexier. Swags of snippets; I'm Australian.

]]> By: Jenny Hansen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/05/mining-your-life-for-story/#comment-127107 Wed, 17 May 2017 04:54:47 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=31585#comment-127107 In reply to Laura Drake.

Funny girl...I'm glad you're home safe!

]]> By: Jenny Hansen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/05/mining-your-life-for-story/#comment-127105 Tue, 16 May 2017 17:55:31 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=31585#comment-127105 In reply to Laura Drake.

Dragon has smoothed the way over many writing hurdles...

]]> By: Laura Drake https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/05/mining-your-life-for-story/#comment-127104 Tue, 16 May 2017 08:44:19 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=31585#comment-127104 Jenny's right - 360 miles on the motorcycle yesterday, getting home from a 3,000 mile trip. My butt is tired.

Wish I knew where the ideas come from, Kate. I hate to sound all woo-woo, but I don't know. I usually get the best ones on my bicycle, or motorcycle, when the working dog part of my mind is happily busy chasing sticks, so the subconscious can play.

I'm with you - love, love, love the time before I write the first line. I mean, the book is all shiny and new. Those sparkles hide the glaring holes and impossible stuff.

That shows up in the middle - aka - The Pit of Dispair.

Signed,
Fellow Psycho

]]> By: Laura Drake https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/05/mining-your-life-for-story/#comment-127103 Tue, 16 May 2017 08:39:09 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=31585#comment-127103 In reply to Kate Moretti.

Me too, Kate! Ignore Orly. I'm convinced she's a well-disguised alien from a planet with lots of coffee and wine, sent here to steal ours.

]]> By: Laura Drake https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/05/mining-your-life-for-story/#comment-127102 Tue, 16 May 2017 08:37:43 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=31585#comment-127102 In reply to Kate Moretti.

And he's a sweetheart, too!

]]> By: Laura Drake https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/05/mining-your-life-for-story/#comment-127101 Tue, 16 May 2017 08:36:28 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=31585#comment-127101 In reply to Jenny Hansen.

Yay for Dragon! And something to fix...

]]> By: Jenny Hansen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/05/mining-your-life-for-story/#comment-127100 Tue, 16 May 2017 05:19:20 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=31585#comment-127100 In reply to Fae Rowen.

I can't WAIT to see your edited babies!! Do you have a "go live" date yet?

]]> By: Jenny Hansen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/05/mining-your-life-for-story/#comment-127099 Tue, 16 May 2017 05:15:41 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=31585#comment-127099 In reply to Kate Moretti.

By the way, my latest trick is to "talk to myself" using Dragon. At least then, I have cool stuff to fix.

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