Thursday, 22 March 2012

My Greatest Literary Influence Is American Idol.

I'm trying again.

It's three in the morning and i'm understandably tired so here is a brief summary of what's going on here.

I'm trying to write a novel, all attempts up until now have been failed attempts. I am now in the process of developing my own formula for writing. So far i'm two steps in. 

Step one was I sat and wrote a list of as many different possible lead characters as I could within ten minutes. 

Step two was I took each of those characters and wrote at least three things about each of them and the world they live in.

I find it difficult to pick one idea over another and say that idea carries more weight or validity, so instead i'm creating a competition between all the conflicting worlds that live in my head and waiting for them to tell me which, if any, wants to be written the most.

Look, at the end of the day it was a really fun exercise. 

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