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Ideas Series – How to Keep Them For Writing
Ideas are finicky things. They’re changing, they’re impulsive and almost always stumbling around in our minds. They’re very much like a toddler who can’t communicate what they want properly and have to result in baby mumble, cries and finger pointing and it’s out job to try and extract exactly what they’re trying to say to us. Ideas like to hide in plain sight, they’re sneaky, wanton and persistent. A lot of the time you can’t catch them, you let them pass, but this is how you lose great ideas that could have been. Ideas for writing are just as hard. So to get the most out of an idea invest…
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Idea series – How to use an idea
How do we use Ideas? I’ve always been mystified as to how people actually use their ideas. Some people jot them down and let them rot away and others put it into motion. I personally love putting them into motion, if I didn’t I wouldn’t be here today and I wouldn’t have book I love to rewrite. Life would be pretty dull if I didn’t push further. So this is where I call you to action. You have an idea. Flesh it out. Get out a pad and some paper (because this works best if you can scribble in the margins) and nut out what this idea is all about.…
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Ideas Series – What Is An Idea?
Idea noun 1. a thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action. 2. the aim or purpose I googled idea and this popped up. I thought it was fitting to start the first of my ideas project with what an idea is. So here is are a few words that come together when you throw in the first half of Wiki’s page on ideas. While I was reading it, it got me thinking. I did a class last year on creativity and ideas. A lot of it was technical (and I may very well try and dig it up) but it was all really amazing interesting. A lot…
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Starting at the beginning
A few weeks ago I went to a lunch with some beautiful ladies from the Bright Eyed And Bloghearted course and I was initially very terrified. I didn’t know what to expect and my gut was telling me to pull out because it was afraid, but I went and had a lovely time. All of the ladies I met were beautiful and wonderful. How could I have thought of missing that? We were all chatting one of the lovely ladies gave me the best idea, she had sat down and drafted out like 50 topics she could blog on. I was like “How in the world could you have done…