How to organize your ideas...
By VJeanC
@VJeanC (11)
Canada
October 7, 2010 10:11am CST
Does anybody have any tips on how to organize the ideas of your story?
Because every time I get a brainstorm going for a story, I feel trapped at the beginning, not knowing what to write, but I'm so eager to get through it so I can begin writing the actual tale.
Has anybody ever had this mound to get over? And if you did, could you give me advice of how to overcome them?
Thank you!
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4 responses
@Catana (735)
• United States
7 Oct 10
There are lots of ways to organize your story. You can use software that's designed especially for writing fiction, or even an outliner. The simplest way is just to put your ideas down in a list. One idea per line. Don't worry about the order, to start with. And don't try to do it all in one day. Let the ideas come to you whenever they can. Once you have a good list, look through them and see which ones should come first. Just shuffle everything around until you have your own version of an outline. After that, if you want to, use each one as a heading. Then add whatever fits under each one. Keep those indented, or maybe just make the headings bold so you know what they are.
@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
7 Oct 10
Cher had a good idea, after you wrote down everything that comes to mind, take a break. Then come back and organize what you wrote down into lists, make a time frame for the story lines and for the characters, make their own list of their descriptions,likes and dislikes, how they are related and so on. A good book to invest in called "The Weekend Novelist" can help you organize for novel writing.
I hope this helps, I am just started taking classes for writing, but had written a novel with over 80,000 words. But I actually didn't do it correctly, and why I bought the book and taking classes, because though I was able to get the story line down, I need to revise my details...A Lot...lol