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RE: Too Many Interests Syndrome (or "What Shall We Write About Today?")
Great post! I have the same problem except my inspiration (the noise in my head) seems to come just as I'm trying to go to sleep. I jump up all night to run in and write down my thoughts so I can write them the next day!
I know what you mean. I have pads and pencils all over the house... I used to call it "bacon creativity" because my best ideas for articles always seemed to come while I was cooking bacon... which I couldn't leave without burning it. So... pads in the kitchen.
I would say fewer than 10 of my 180-ish Steemit posts to date were created off "notes," not as a result of just sitting down to write.
I don't really do notes per se... What I will do is jot down something like- do an article about... include this or that. For example, the story I'm writing right now began as an idea about a potential conspiracy. I thought I could write it in 2 episodes (I'must have been really crazy that day) I just finished chap 13 and I'm probably half done.
When I write a story I have an idea of what it's going to be about generally. No idea of how it will end. When I sit down to write a chapter, I just start writing and whatever happens, happens... it's all just flow of consciousness like watching a movie that's playing in my head. I hope that makes sense.
I was never much good at fiction, but one of the things that did work quite well was allowing the characters to come to life in my imagination... and then letting them (literally) "tell their story," like I was simply a reporter of sorts, writing down their story.
Thanks for sharing a bit of your process!
Me too... That's exactly my method- let the characters tell their own story. I give them each a personality and let them act accordingly.