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16th January 2018 at 10:06 am #750Matthew BrownKeymaster
Let’s talk about works in progress (WIP).
How did you develop the ideas for your current WIP?
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24th January 2018 at 6:06 pm #780Bob BobsonParticipant
Hard work.
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24th June 2019 at 7:23 pm #2007Matthew BrownKeymaster
Hard work.
True that.
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29th April 2018 at 9:06 pm #1148Matthew BrownKeymaster
I’m currently working on a comedy sci-fi set in space.
The idea started as a three-page description of all the ways the squad of unit Treble-Six were useless. Beta readings saw people laughing several times a page but I was stuck on developing it. So it sat and gathered dust for a year or so.
Then one day a friend and I binge watched a lot of Archer. That put me in the right mood to present a story about a dysfunctional group of “heroes”. In no time I had turned a treatment into a chapter and a half of actual story. After that, as Bob says, hard work.
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20th May 2018 at 12:39 am #1176jeffjohnsParticipant
I asked a lot of “what if” questions.
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20th May 2018 at 2:18 am #1183Matthew BrownKeymaster
“What if” is a powerful question.
That reminds me, I plan to write a post along similar lines…
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25th September 2018 at 4:39 pm #1401Burty BurtmanParticipant
Day dreaming. So much daydreaming.
Let your mind wander. Every day.
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19th October 2018 at 7:24 am #1427Matthew BrownKeymaster
Let your mind wander. Every day.
That is some solid advice.
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20th February 2019 at 2:49 pm #1608Jason LatnarParticipant
Watching too much TV and Netflix. Most of my stuff ends up as thinly disguised fan fiction.
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22nd February 2019 at 4:39 pm #1615Matthew BrownKeymaster
That’s nothing to be ashamed of in and of itself. Some very successful book series started life as fan fiction. I’m not a fan of any of the examples I can think of but fan fiction is still writing.
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4th May 2019 at 6:05 pm #1808Christian WriterParticipant
I found myself writing long essays on a group of related subjects and realised I had the beginnings of a book.
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