Showing posts with label story ideas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label story ideas. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

An idea for a story

Daily Goal: 500 words.
I wrote 0 words.
Sundays/Stories Finished: 8/0.

I got an idea for a story today. A good idea, I think, enough for a novel. The story itself is simple and has been done before - haven't they all - but the particulars are new and enticing enough to make me want to write it. So I assume people would want to read it.

I wrote the idea down, so I guess I could have written 100 words written today above, but I don't think it ought to count. The important thing is that I wrote it down. I wonder how many ideas like this have gone, because of my overevaluation of my memory. Do remember that ideas aren't worth anything. They are a dime a dozen. An idea that catches your attention and makes you want to write, however, is a valuable thing. Not because of some intrinsic value it has, that you could sell to a tv-network or anything like that, but because it might just make you turn of the tv and get you writing.

I'll flesh out the details and post the idea here, in some future instalment, if I still like it in a day or two.