Check Out Your Imagination... Ask Ridiculous Questions

This year, we’ve invited you to tackle NaNoWriMo and check out your imagination at “The NaNoWriMo Library”. We’ve asked some real-life librarians for their best tips on finding inspiration in the stacks. Today, Genee Bright at the New York Public Library challenges you to keep asking “What if?”:

I’m extremely fortunate to be working at The New York Public Library. With 92 locations, there’s a place for everyone to find great resources that can be accessed to promote education, imagination, and personal growth. Being able to work in such an inspiring atmosphere always tugs at my imagination. 

I often find myself wondering what a person might do in certain situations, and at the Mid-Manhattan Library, the people I meet every day allows me to be very creative! 

For example, what if a person picks up a book and inside finds the unsigned confession letter of a murderer listing in detail how they will kill again that same day and where they could find the next letter if not stopped? Or what if they found an uncashed check for a significant amount of money. What would they do and why? These situations may seem far-fetched, but then again you might be surprised by what people use for a bookmark! 

Never stop asking yourself or the world questions because sometimes ridiculous questions evolve into the best and most loved stories. 

For some additional help getting the writing juices flowing:

Try 8tracks.com a free music playlist for when you’re writing. 
Also, if you’re anything like me and need more than a little help with your grammar, try grammarly.com  it’s a great writing enhancement platform. 
Lastly, here at Mid-Manhattan Library, we are hosting two, 2-hour write-ins per week on the 4th Floor PC Lab. We’ll also be tracking the progress of some of our participants on nypl.org’s blogging platform. Meet our MML novelists!

Genee Bright has been working at The New York Public Library for the past four years. Currently, she is an Information Assistant at the Mid-Manhattan Library. She’s attending Queens College for a Master’s of  Library and Information Studies degree and holds a B.A in Art Education from CUNY City College. She lives and works in New York.