[Matthew Brown]

Let’s talk about works in progress (WIP).

How did you develop the ideas for your current WIP?

[Bob Bobson]

Hard work.

[Matthew Brown]

Hard work.

True that.

[Matthew Brown]

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.

[jeffjohns]

I asked a lot of “what if” questions.

[Matthew Brown]

“What if” is a powerful question.

That reminds me, I plan to write a post along similar lines…

[Burty Burtman]

Day dreaming. So much daydreaming.

Let your mind wander. Every day.

[Matthew Brown]

Let your mind wander. Every day.

That is some solid advice.

[Jason Latnar]

Watching too much TV and Netflix. Most of my stuff ends up as thinly disguised fan fiction.

[Matthew Brown]

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.

[Christian Writer]

I found myself writing long essays on a group of related subjects and realised I had the beginnings of a book.

[Author]

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