Ideas Abound
The definition of a distracted writer has to be ‘coming up with plot ideas while you are floating around in your friend’s swimming pool’.
This weekend was spent out and about, having fun with friends, drinking, bbq’s, and watching fireworks. At one point, while swimming in the pool, I was slapped with a plot idea. A scene. A series of images that planted themselves in full colour into my brain and refused to leave. A woman floating face down in the water of a swimming pool, hair floating out around her head like a seaweed halo. And like that, a story idea was born.
I have about 30 of these story ideas bouncing about in a giant mosh pit in my head. The problem lies in trying to get them to settle down long enough for me to sort them out and start writing. ^_^ Now since some of them seem to be shorter rather than longer, I’ve decided to take a few of them and start putting together some free reads here on the site. Hopefully I’ll pick up a few more converts to my writing, and maybe a fan or two in there as well.
Either way, at least I’ll be able to get the ideas out of my head and onto the screen!
Hugs!
- Nika
Oh how horrible! bbq’s, swimmingpools, plot ideas and firworks, blargh :p
Wouldn’t you’ve had a much better weekend with my know-it-all dad in law and nosey mom in law, going to a musical that sucked just because the one niece I don’t particularly like was in it… oh well, I’m glad weekends like mine don’t come along very often and weekends like yours do
And yeay! for short stories
)) Just bought Stephen King’s short story book ‘Just after Sunset’
Hmmm…. nattering family and a musical… vs cockatails and fireworks. Yeah okay! LOL Sounds like you had a much better weekend than I.
Mmmm Stephen King — one of my literary heroes! I wrote a pre-university paper dedicated to comparison of SK plots. Got an A but confused the hell out of the very proper advanced literary english prof.