Angela Booth's Writing Blog: Weekend Writer: Combine ideas and write a story

Books: Write Fiction

Angela Booth: Short Fiction Secrets: How To Write And Sell Short Stories (Selling Writer Strategies Book 2)
Writing short stories is a fun and easy way to get started writing fiction — you can get paid to write, in your spare time. If you're new to writing fiction, you can learn the elements of writing fiction — short stories are much easier to control than longer fiction.
Angela Booth: Master Fiction Writing: Craft A Novel in 31 Days: Selling Writer Strategies 4
This program began as a 30-day challenge which I organized in 2010. Hundreds of writers joined the challenge; they wrote novels. You can write a novel in 31 days too.
Angela Booth: Step By Step To Fiction Which Sells: Plotting And Scene Magic
What if you could leave boring fiction forever behind you, so that the story in your head becomes the story on the page? You CAN, when you discover the magic of story, plotting, and scenes.

How many ideas do you have over the course of a day? Chances are that you have dozens.

Look over your Idea Notebook, and choose two or three ideas at random. Now combine them. Write a page about how you might treat the combined ideas - you'll find that you now have the nugget of a better, stronger story. Note - this works just as well for writing nonfiction as it does for fiction.

Combining ideas works because of the way your mind works

Your mind tosses up ideas via a process of association. Whatever you're working on, you'll find that the process of writing generates ideas. if you've been collecting these ideas, they form the seeds of future projects.

Have fun. :-)

Resources

Ideas Won't Keep: Cahier Idea Notebook

Creative Problem Solving Tips

10 ways to infuse your work with your personality - I especially like: "9. Take a lighthearted approach (Don't take yourself too seriously). If you feel stuck, you can always reinvent yourself, (re: try something else)."

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