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Who/where do you bounce ideas?
Nickeris86:
it sure does, i only got about thirty pages written and i have been thinking about this idea for almost five years.
shades of grey:
I have two so far, and a very detailed story arc.
raljamcar:
i bounce them off myself on the bus ride to school while listening to music, often the same or similar ideas, thinking of how to make it flow better, remove overused or unneccesarry thoughts and spiffing them up
Dragoon:
I have about a gazillon of chapter one's lying around. And just as many story ideas.
I've just recently discovered my mistake. While I had the characters and the story arc planned, I often neglected to flesh out the rest of the world in sufficient detail.
My solution, which I kinda stumbled upon, was PlayByPost roleplaying in online forums. I'm currently DMing a game and I quickly found that I had to work a lot more on the details of the world than in my regular fiction. With that and the constant feedback from my players I was able to write roughly 25000 words in one month. I almost fell off my chair when I did the word-count. (I'm SO signing up for NaNoWriMo this year.)
So to stay on topic; what I've found to work best is to select a few good critiquers on web forums and let them tear your work to shreds. Friends and family often have a misguided sense of loyalty, and tend to prioritise your feelings over giving you actionable feedback.
Nickeris86:
i love fleshing out my worlds in excruciating detail, even if i don't include all of that in the actual story. my biggest problem is connecting my scenes togeather.
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