Thoughts on ideas
It's been hard to start again after the easter vacation. I did write during the vacation but not on my novel. I lay it to rest. I don't know if that's generally a good idea but I didn't have much of a choice. It's harder to work on that with people around than it is to scribble down ideas, short comments and loose sentences.
For the past couple of days I've had this idea for a short story in my head. It's developing by itself in there despite my efforts to let it go and focus on the cellar in which I'm currently located in my novel. I walk for 6 kilometers every morning (or at least I try to do it every morning) and although listening to various books while at it it is usually a source for thought processes and new ideas. Today I managed to focus entirely on my novel but saturday and friday where entirely dedicated to that short story idea.
It's interesting to keep the thought in the writing direction at least and not let it slide away from it. Of course I listen to audiobooks so part of my thought process is dedicated to that but looking at the people around me and wondering how I would write them as characters is interesting. Seeing a tree hinged over a pond wondering what would be happening in that kind of setting. Wondering if to describe the mess in the pond or not. Wondering what the old couple holding hands would be like. It's good fun and probably very fruitful if I let it be.
I will not give up on the short story idea I suspect but I am going to fight it a little longer. A long thought process never killed a short story that wanted to be written and I suspect I might need a bit more time with this one than my avarage scribbles (like the one I posted).
I just got back from a walk. It's tiring. My mind seems to shut off as soon as I stop walking. I have no idea why. Fortunately I'll be having lunch in a little while and after that I'll manage to focus. until then I'll have to sit here and think things through. Perhaps scribble down a sentence here and there.
For the past couple of days I've had this idea for a short story in my head. It's developing by itself in there despite my efforts to let it go and focus on the cellar in which I'm currently located in my novel. I walk for 6 kilometers every morning (or at least I try to do it every morning) and although listening to various books while at it it is usually a source for thought processes and new ideas. Today I managed to focus entirely on my novel but saturday and friday where entirely dedicated to that short story idea.
It's interesting to keep the thought in the writing direction at least and not let it slide away from it. Of course I listen to audiobooks so part of my thought process is dedicated to that but looking at the people around me and wondering how I would write them as characters is interesting. Seeing a tree hinged over a pond wondering what would be happening in that kind of setting. Wondering if to describe the mess in the pond or not. Wondering what the old couple holding hands would be like. It's good fun and probably very fruitful if I let it be.
I will not give up on the short story idea I suspect but I am going to fight it a little longer. A long thought process never killed a short story that wanted to be written and I suspect I might need a bit more time with this one than my avarage scribbles (like the one I posted).
I just got back from a walk. It's tiring. My mind seems to shut off as soon as I stop walking. I have no idea why. Fortunately I'll be having lunch in a little while and after that I'll manage to focus. until then I'll have to sit here and think things through. Perhaps scribble down a sentence here and there.