Challenge #384

[shivver]

Paul Cornell said that the first question he gets from people is "Where do you get your ideas?" as if having good ideas is what makes you a successful writer. The thing is, he says, everyone has ideas - everyone. A writer, however, writes those ideas down and works on them, develops them.

Writing is taking an idea, developing it, growing it, changing it, discarding the bits that don’t work, and essentially turning a sentence into a full story.

So that's your challenge today. Don't write. Take an idea you've had and work on it, and write down what you come up with. Ten minutes of thinking about an idea won't produce a full story, but should be enough to work some parts of it out. Here are some ideas:

1. Not sure how the heroes are going to get past an obstacle? Sit down and figure it out.
2. Inspect your character's personality and history and determine what choice they're going to make in a situation based on that. (If you character doesn't have enough personality or history for you to be able to do this, then develop them.)
3. Think about your falling actions and denouement. Are they satisfying to a reader? If not, what will make them so?