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WRITING
What Is Inside My 200 Page Book of Ideas
Breaking down my stories and ideas
How do you save your ideas?
Do you use your phone to take down some quick notes?
Do you hang onto them like a damsel in distress until you can carefully lay them down on a paper bed?
Or, do you carry around a notebook everywhere like me?
Over the past four months, I jotted down every idea I had on a 200-page exercise book. Today, I finished filling in the last page. I thought it would be fun to go through the pages and see what kind of writer I am. Interested in find out? If not, you can always have a chuckle at my poor attempts at humor and bad handwriting.
Let’s open up this treasure trove of weird ideas and see where it leads us.
The Silly Fun and Whimsical
This is my bread and butter as a fledgling writer. It is also the jam, cheese, ham, lettuce, and seasoning that flavors most of my stories. Nearly 100 pages were filled with thoughts of blissful moments stitched together with my crude childish humor.
There were stories about staring up at the clouds and seeing monsters; tales of turtles tossing frisbees by the ocean; a grand epic of finding inspiration…