Written Earlier, offline...
I Found It!
Yay! At long last, after much searching, I finally found my little pile of index cards (I had planned on putting them in a box, but I forgot) with all my random story ideas on them!! Three cheers! :grins: I know, I know. Too many exclamation points there. I can't help it; I'm thrilled. I know I had them, but I couldn't find them, and it was most frustrating, especially during that dry spell when I couldn't come up with any ideas!
When I first wrote them, it was with the idea of keeping them in a little box, so that I could rifle through it when needed, and get ideas when I was drawing up a blank. Since then, however, I've been so happy as to get one of the little $1.50 blank notebooks from Dover (Mine is the Renoir of the two girls at the piano--it's one of my favorite paintings of all time), for keeping story ideas in. It's much easier to keep track of than a loose pile of cards, and takes up less space than a box (it's a very small notebook, something like 3"x5"). And, if I only put one idea per page, there's room for a title, the idea itself, and about half a page left for Date Written, Submitted To, and Published By information, when such information becomes available. It's very cool!!
I do like my story ideas, most of them. (Some, I'm not sure where I was going with them, and the bit of the idea that I wrote down doesn't give me a clue. ;-) They include such titles as "Amber and Jade", "The Tennis-Club Cats", and "Death is a Cat's-Eye" (on that last one, I can't tell if it's supposed to be "is" or "in"....I suppose the story will dictate, once I start writing it and get more than a vague idea and a cool title.) I'm also planning on putting ideas from my unwritten or nearly-unwritten WIPs; The Greatest of These and Called to Glory (which title I will not be putting down in my book...either it gets a better name, and soon, or I kill myself :-P ) I thought about putting Autumn's Game in there, but since the plot itself is the bit I'm not sure about, I didn't really see the point. But so many new stories to write! I'm absolutely delighted by it, or would be, if I actually had the time to write them. ;-) Shoot, at this rate, I may pass Eugie in the number of stories I submit and rejections I recieve this year (once I actually start writing them :-P )! Hehe. I don't even pretend to think I can pass her in sales!
Yay! At long last, after much searching, I finally found my little pile of index cards (I had planned on putting them in a box, but I forgot) with all my random story ideas on them!! Three cheers! :grins: I know, I know. Too many exclamation points there. I can't help it; I'm thrilled. I know I had them, but I couldn't find them, and it was most frustrating, especially during that dry spell when I couldn't come up with any ideas!
When I first wrote them, it was with the idea of keeping them in a little box, so that I could rifle through it when needed, and get ideas when I was drawing up a blank. Since then, however, I've been so happy as to get one of the little $1.50 blank notebooks from Dover (Mine is the Renoir of the two girls at the piano--it's one of my favorite paintings of all time), for keeping story ideas in. It's much easier to keep track of than a loose pile of cards, and takes up less space than a box (it's a very small notebook, something like 3"x5"). And, if I only put one idea per page, there's room for a title, the idea itself, and about half a page left for Date Written, Submitted To, and Published By information, when such information becomes available. It's very cool!!
I do like my story ideas, most of them. (Some, I'm not sure where I was going with them, and the bit of the idea that I wrote down doesn't give me a clue. ;-) They include such titles as "Amber and Jade", "The Tennis-Club Cats", and "Death is a Cat's-Eye" (on that last one, I can't tell if it's supposed to be "is" or "in"....I suppose the story will dictate, once I start writing it and get more than a vague idea and a cool title.) I'm also planning on putting ideas from my unwritten or nearly-unwritten WIPs; The Greatest of These and Called to Glory (which title I will not be putting down in my book...either it gets a better name, and soon, or I kill myself :-P ) I thought about putting Autumn's Game in there, but since the plot itself is the bit I'm not sure about, I didn't really see the point. But so many new stories to write! I'm absolutely delighted by it, or would be, if I actually had the time to write them. ;-) Shoot, at this rate, I may pass Eugie in the number of stories I submit and rejections I recieve this year (once I actually start writing them :-P )! Hehe. I don't even pretend to think I can pass her in sales!
posted by Keesa | 6:00 PM
2 Comments:
I remember those index cards! I didn't know you'd lost them ... hmm. Maybe I just forgot (or wasn't paying attention ... *sigh*)
Hehe. Good luck at passing Eugie! ;)
:grins: Well, I mentioned it somewhere...maybe at one of my other logues. But I certainly am relieved to have found them! Some of them are really good--I can't wait to write them!
And thanks--I'm going to need it! (Although, her laptop is being repaired right now, poor Eugie, so I get a head start. Muahahahaha!!)
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