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Writing Down Inspiring Ideas and Breakthrough Organization Methods for Success
The ideas for stories or articles come at you like falling rain, but it’s what you do with them and how you organize them that counts in the long run. Want help finding where to publish? Read all the way to the end.
Ideas for writing are all around us, and most of us try to capture them on bits of paper, table napkins, small notebooks, or digital tape recorders. All of that is fine, but when you’re back in your writing space, what do you do with all those gems? I wrote about the collecting of story ideas before in my Crumb Method.
What do you do once you actively collect those snippet gems of stories or articles to come? There’s one piece of software that can save you a lot of frustration and allow you to begin visualizing finished products by shifting the ideas around.
One software program is Scrivener (here’s a full course), which can be a lifesaver for any writer. It gives you places to store photos, research, character sketches, and once you know what you’re going to create, it provides the corkboard where you put virtual index cards that carry info and can be shifted around.
