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Some of us create a character and place him or her in a situation and just write. Introduce another character and put the two of them in conversation. See what appears on the page. Write ten more p...
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T06:51:44Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Ken Mohnkern
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2019-12-08T06:51:44Z (almost 5 years ago)
Some of us create a character and place him or her in a situation and just write. Introduce another character and put the two of them in conversation. See what appears on the page. Write ten more pages of scenes, expanding on what's come before. Have your readers look at your work and weigh in on the most interesting, expandable ideas. From this kind of exercise I usually get a pretty good idea for a story, and a few more to put in my ideas notebook. Granted, I write small-scale stories, not fantasy series like a lot of folks here. But I imagine this technique works for that kind of story too.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2017-08-08T12:55:26Z (about 7 years ago)
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