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I have had an idea!

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Edited by Jackie Morris, Tuesday, 11 Feb 2020, 11:34

A big announcement today - I have had an idea for a short story. I know, I know, I'm doing an MA in Creative Writing, isn't that supposed to be par for the course (whilst on the course - ha! see what I did there?). Well, you would think so. I've been on module 2, Fiction (secondary genre) for a panic filled week now. I can do the activities, but as for ideas for the TMA, not a scooby thus far.. 

The national fiction forum is HUGE and it's hard to get a meaningful comment on your work there (or to make one, to be fair), so although the folks that have commented have been kind it hasn't been enough to fill the vast chasm of need that is my ego. Also, when they are only kind there's no room to learn and refine (I've mentioned this is the first week, right? I know I am trying to run before I can walk but that's a lifelong battle). I think with so many posts it's hard enough to keep up, let alone do more than bat the ball right back as far and hard as you can.

Anyway, driving home today it occurred to me that I do have an idea for a story that interests me and that is manageable to write. This is very exciting, given until now all the characters I've tried to create have seemed either boring or cardboard stereotypes. I've been reading Stephen King short stories and trying to work out a structure from that, I think it may be the way in for me, structure first then character. Which is something I read in the course material yesterday, too.

So, the lesson for today (repeat after me) - trust the process, trust the process. And watch this space.

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