November 2020 - Day 18

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Here is the place to tell us about your daily success (or the lack of it)!
May the magic be with us all!

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[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Brainstorming here... I'm not so sure about whether to do the draft for my workshop piece about the Cemetery Incident, because this morning I had a thought about the Doll Without A Face saga, and Not Throwing Out Mum's Teddy, and for this very early piece I'm thinking they might be gentler and therefore easier to get the detail and description in (they both can be described in innnnnnteresting ways...) There doesn't have to be much story after all, just a vignette (which I'm better at than plotty stories)

On the other hand, I can combine things, so if I did The Cemetery Incident, there were a couple of visits to other, older, more creepily evocative graveyards that might be fun to throw in. Only caveat is that I can't include a stone angel watching me because everyone will think I got it from Dr Who although I've seen plenty of them in my visits to old cemeteries...

I might scribble the start of each and see where I end up.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Brainstorming is so important. I often have the whole story written in my head before sitting down. The end result might or might not resemble it, but I've usually at least worked out the kinks.

Good luck!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I sometimes brainstorm and sometimes just start writing and see where I end up... both systems work (or don't) pretty well equally.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Free writing (or at least that's what I call it). I just let my fingers take over. I guess it's the writer's version of speaking in tongues.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Dr Who took that trope and sort of spoiled it for anyone else to use, old though it is - and of course it is an old and well respected trope because it is a feeling so many people associate with churchyards.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Isn't it annoying when screenwriters steal your ideas?

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Especially when they steal it years before you come up with it {g}

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

So true. If I do write something in a cemetery, I'd need some other sort of statue, I think...

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Early idea gathering is such a lively time. I tend to jot down bits and pieces, just a sentence or even phrases as they pop up during the brainstorming. Sounds like you've got a pretty good start there.

Go ahead and include the stone angels, it's your experience, and you can even add an aside that they are like something out of Dr Who.

Happy scribbling:)