Charles W. McDonald Jr.
1) Develop your characters!!!
2) Visualize your compelling event(s) and all the threads leading into and out of them.
3) If you did one and two above, then what comes next will be more like you recording the events of your character's natural behaviors as if you were a photo-journalist in the scene with your characters just watching them do what they do.
4) If you're not dreaming about your story, you're doing it wrong. Keep your phone by your bed at night and take it with you everywhere. Talk into your phone (speech-to-text) like a crazy person everywhere you go. If people aren't looking at you like you're crazy, you're doing it wrong! You've got to stay on top of those ideas when and where they come with the velocity in which they will come or you'll drown doing this.
5) Convert those notes into your manuscript storyline ASAP!
2) Visualize your compelling event(s) and all the threads leading into and out of them.
3) If you did one and two above, then what comes next will be more like you recording the events of your character's natural behaviors as if you were a photo-journalist in the scene with your characters just watching them do what they do.
4) If you're not dreaming about your story, you're doing it wrong. Keep your phone by your bed at night and take it with you everywhere. Talk into your phone (speech-to-text) like a crazy person everywhere you go. If people aren't looking at you like you're crazy, you're doing it wrong! You've got to stay on top of those ideas when and where they come with the velocity in which they will come or you'll drown doing this.
5) Convert those notes into your manuscript storyline ASAP!
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