After a few days of doing a few of those activities during my writing time, I realized that it was difficult to use my imagination on certain pictures in which I knew what was happening or who the people were. So I decided to take my own advice and do the activities in my own story seed posts, free writing in the hopes that a new idea would spark. Also, because I have two novels already written in the aforementioned story world, and both are still in revision stages, I figured there was no need to add another story that will just sit on the shelf for years while I finish the first two. But that’s not quite the same as starting from scratch. Of course they’ve changed shape along the way, and plenty of new elements have been added recently. My current writing projects are all stories I started crafting years ago. There can be a lot of joy in the discovery, and that’s something I haven’t had much lately. But when I posted the first list of story seeds, I started thinking about how long it’s been since I’ve started a story from scratch. I have maybe 2/3 of a completed outline for a story I was planning to write this year. I’m still in the early stages of that, and to be honest, I’m not sure that what I’m working on is going to be for NaNoWriMo. If you’ve been following my steps for preparing a story for NaNoWriMo from scratch, you may be doing the same thing I’m doing right now–trying to pull a plot together. This year, I’m already learning, and November hasn’t even arrived. I always say I learn something new every year of doing NaNoWriMo–something about myself as a writer, something about writing in general, or new tips or strategies for NaNoWriMo.
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