This is how writing is with me.
I have an idea, a eureka moment and from that idea comes lots of ideas for a story. I think writing is all about stories, not about grammer or spelling the story is king. When we hear a story over the garden fence or in the pub, it's a nerd that corrects the story tellers grammer, if the story is good the audience will listen, no matter what.
So, I then chew the idea over, if it doesn't have an ending it isn't an idea. The end is the most important thing for me. I want the audience to leave fulfilled and not just "I woke up and it was a dream". A story is like a map or a journey on a map, it needs a start and a finish, it's no good starting out with your map and not know where you are going.
I think about the idea for a long time, different paths the characters could go down, scenes, drama.
I write in notebooks, clean new notebooks and I make drawings and doodles with different coloured pens.
And then, when I've thought it through I start to write. When I write new ideas come, different paths, better narrative and by instinct I know which to follow and which to leave.
When I have finished the first write through I save it as draft one and go back to the beginning and start again.
I am never really satisfied, never.
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