I’ve been working very slowly on a few stories just recently but I keep having all these ideas. With a lot of these ideas, I get the first few paragraphs written then I have to go do something else. The end result is a bunch of ideas barely started and me rapidly losing interest in them as the initial burst of creativity associated with the story is long gone.
I said to Nicky recently what this essentially means is when I have writer’s block, I have a bunch of ideas I can use to help inspire me. But the truth is a lot of these ideas sit wasted, some never written beyond the first dot-point stage (I use this technique a lot to put down my ideas quickly). At some point, I go back through these, read them, assess whether they’re worth keeping and delete most of them. I sometimes wonder whether I’d be better off handing these ideas on for someone else to be inspired by them as well. And then I think no one would really be interested in taking on something from my overactive, often-weird imagination.
Anyway, the reason for the above meandering is so I could lead to asking someone else to provide the next piece of inspiration. I believe this time around it should come from one of the ladies in the group. So InBloom, Tova, Serenity, Kelly, Whip or anyone else; if you have any ideas, quotes, pictures or whatever, put them up so those of us (meaning me) who are running a bit short at the moment have something to inspire us.