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Even the biggest net can't catch every idea
Where do ideas come from?
• The imagination dreams up an idea.
• But other thoughts get in the way, pushing the idea out into the far edges of the mind.
• The idea starts to grow; it expands and fragments, stubbornly refusing to arrange itself into a story.
• It starts to populate itself with characters, who in turn find their voices.
• Little bursts of dialogue pop up.
• The conscience mind hears the dialogue and stops, turning full attention to this new potential story…
• The computer is switched on, the blank screen awaits.
• The characters run for cover, whispering between themselves… just too quietly to hear.
• So what next..? Stamp around the imagination demanding that a story shows itself?
• Or wait a while, listening, letting the imagination play a while longer…
because more words are always needed, words for the story, words to tell people about the story, and words to bring customers into the online bookshop.
Knit your own sheep, knit a flock... knitting pattern PDF
but the work also in progress is...
and catching a story is like a game of cat and mouse through the imagination.
Are you the author? – who me? The one sat behind the local author book signing sign...
But sometimes just to make that first mark is all it takes to free the imagination
I’m mindful of the analogy of keeping plates spinning, but sometimes it can be hard to tackle tasks that need a lot of brain power, while trying to spin plates
Self publishing is all about multitasking, which is definitely playing out this year
And what is more unruly than a sheep? Well a flock of sheep springs to mind… because where there’s one sheep, another one is sure to follow.
If daydreaming with a pencil in hand looks productive, then hopefully tapping away at the keyboard is next level productive…