That is just a handful of the notebooks that I own that hold the beginnings of many stories and lists of other ideas. Every back to school season, I stock up on dozens of notebooks. Most of them end up being used by the students in my classroom. However, I always save a selection for myself. I prefer to use purple, which is my favorite color, but occasionally use a different one for variety.
I know, I know. Holy crap, woman, get busy and finish writing these!
If only it were that simple...
Beginnings are always easy for me. It's the endings with which I have a problem. I often have an outline in mind. A direction in which I want to go. And then for some reason, the characters and the story don't want to go that way. Sometimes, I end up at a crossroads and am not sure which direction is the right one. I have a hard time with that. It's a personal issue. :-P
Now that the first story is actually finished, though, I have more hope of actually getting the inspiration to finish more of these. I am spending more time this spring break week on my A to Z challenges than I had originally anticipated. (Gotta love it when life throws you curve balls that distract you from the task at hand.) I had hoped to get more original writing done. I have also come up with about a dozen new starts. One of these days...
I'm not one with a bunch of beginnings, but I definitely have bits and pieces of ideas and thoughts strewn about. I try to keep them all in one place but when an idea smacks you in the head, you need to find anything you can to write it down and eventually unorganized chaos ensues.
ReplyDeleteI have a lot of those too. So many beginnings... :)
ReplyDeleteI love purple too! I like to get purple pens to write in my dozens of notebooks. I'm finding in my current WIP that I don't like the beginning and all of the setting up. I want to get to the good stuff in the middle and end. But beginnings are important so I just keep plugging away. Just keep swimming:)
ReplyDeleteI have those very notebooks plus a lot of legal pads. I filled most of them up when I was supposed to be working. Which may be why I'm not working now. It's always something.
ReplyDeleteA to Z Challenge
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I don't like purple, but I have loads of green notebooks around the house, and in my bags and pockets! Nice to see I'm not the only one!
ReplyDeleteI'm more of a digital planner (Scrivener) but I do take notes in a journal on writing books i read, and notes from courses I take, or my montly RWA meetings (on writing). There is something to writing out ideas longhand, which I am trying to work back into my life. But so many options online and software for writing make it easy to compile digitally.
ReplyDeleteOh my God, I have a stack of those going back to first grade!
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