June 9, 2010 | Life in General,Road Trip Wednesday,The 4-1-1 on Me
Road Trip Wednesday is a “Blog Carnival”, where YA Highway‘s contributors post a weekly writing or reading-related question and answer it in on our own blogs. You can hop from destination to destination and get everybody’s unique take on the topic.
You’re more than welcome to participate! Just answer the question on your own blog, and leave a link to it in their comments.
Topic #32: How do you know when project will/won’t work?
When I first started writing, ideas would come so fast. I would stop in the middle of one story and start a new one. As I got older, I really had to discipline myself and say “You need to finish this one first. No more half-stories. ” I’ve since learned to write down my ideas, but I think that’s the answer. I think that as long as a writer has ideas, the idea of project working or not working will never come into play.
This is just my personal opinion, but I believe that if an idea doesn’t work out initially, it can always be used somewhere else. Or turned into something else. The stories I’d created in the past no longer exist. That’s because I moved around several times and kept them in a folder. Thinking it was school work I didn’t need, I tossed it (I now write in spiral notebooks). I didn’t toss them on purpose. Had I kept them, they would’ve turned into full length stories.
I think projects will always work, it’s just a question of how and when.
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