Comments on: Ideas: the building blocks for a story http://www.accessromance.com/blog/2009/10/14/ideas-the-building-blocks-for-a-story/ AccessRomance Authors\' All A-Blog Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:38:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Joanne Rock http://www.accessromance.com/blog/2009/10/14/ideas-the-building-blocks-for-a-story/comment-page-1/#comment-21494 Joanne Rock Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:07:58 +0000 http://www.accessromance.com/blog/?p=2549#comment-21494 Great post, Shelley! And I think you're right about writers training their brains... no matter what a person's profession/intersts, they can't help but filter the world through that lens. So whereas a physical therapist might notice limps and awkward gaits wherever she goes, teachers see "teachable moments" and writers see stories. My dad the farmer can't take a ride through the countryside without noticing new strains of corn or a patch of heirloom tomatoes ;-). Great post, Shelley! And I think you’re right about writers training their brains… no matter what a person’s profession/intersts, they can’t help but filter the world through that lens. So whereas a physical therapist might notice limps and awkward gaits wherever she goes, teachers see “teachable moments” and writers see stories. My dad the farmer can’t take a ride through the countryside without noticing new strains of corn or a patch of heirloom tomatoes ;-).

]]> By: Shelley Munro http://www.accessromance.com/blog/2009/10/14/ideas-the-building-blocks-for-a-story/comment-page-1/#comment-21489 Shelley Munro Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:54:12 +0000 http://www.accessromance.com/blog/?p=2549#comment-21489 LOL Fedora - I hear you. When kids are involved there's not much time to people watch etc. I think writers sort of train their brains to observe and note things. Amy - definitely. Time is something I wish I had more of. Your current WIP sounds interesting. Linda - I bet you'd get into the swing of things quickly enough. :wink: LOL Fedora – I hear you. When kids are involved there’s not much time to people watch etc. I think writers sort of train their brains to observe and note things.

Amy – definitely. Time is something I wish I had more of. Your current WIP sounds interesting.

Linda – I bet you’d get into the swing of things quickly enough. :wink:

]]> By: Linda Henderson http://www.accessromance.com/blog/2009/10/14/ideas-the-building-blocks-for-a-story/comment-page-1/#comment-21483 Linda Henderson Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:47:58 +0000 http://www.accessromance.com/blog/?p=2549#comment-21483 I would probably have a lot of ideas, just not know what to do with them. I would probably have a lot of ideas, just not know what to do with them.

]]> By: Amy Gallow http://www.accessromance.com/blog/2009/10/14/ideas-the-building-blocks-for-a-story/comment-page-1/#comment-21481 Amy Gallow Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:17:43 +0000 http://www.accessromance.com/blog/?p=2549#comment-21481 The mixture of personal experience and odd triggers is a potent one. I wrote a series of five books because the obituary of a 107 year-old Digger contrasted so sharply with our family history and my current story owes much to a twenty-year-old conversation in an international transit lounge in the early hours of the morning when our plane was delayed by bird-strike. Some ideas germinate immediately, while others lie dormant until another triggers them into active life. The problem has always been to find the time to write the stories. The mixture of personal experience and odd triggers is a potent one. I wrote a series of five books because the obituary of a 107 year-old Digger contrasted so sharply with our family history and my current story owes much to a twenty-year-old conversation in an international transit lounge in the early hours of the morning when our plane was delayed by bird-strike.
Some ideas germinate immediately, while others lie dormant until another triggers them into active life. The problem has always been to find the time to write the stories.

]]> By: Fedora http://www.accessromance.com/blog/2009/10/14/ideas-the-building-blocks-for-a-story/comment-page-1/#comment-21478 Fedora Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:55:29 +0000 http://www.accessromance.com/blog/?p=2549#comment-21478 I love your examples, Shelley. I think my problem is just being unobservant and/or being extremely forgetful--I imagine there are loads of ideas out there, but I have a tendency to just glide right by... (or rush right by, kids in tow, hollering, "come on, guys! We're late!!!!") ;) I love your examples, Shelley. I think my problem is just being unobservant and/or being extremely forgetful–I imagine there are loads of ideas out there, but I have a tendency to just glide right by… (or rush right by, kids in tow, hollering, “come on, guys! We’re late!!!!”) ;)

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