1. Take on the task of daily writing to organize your work.
In a lot of creative “How To” books, the author often begins by explaining how to find a genre of literature that suits your writing. Some will introduce you to a wide variety of styles associated with Mystery, Action, Adventure, etc in order for you to customize your own work into a common template for that style. But in actuality, you may already have a good idea of what you want your story to be about, but do not know how to organize what will happen next. This may be because you want your themes to be more unique than the author next door to you.
You should definitely allow yourself to jot down all the ideas and character models that come to mind daily. Try carrying a spare notebook around so when an idea appears, you have something on hand to organize your ideas. Just like creating a draft document of an essay, you want to to write down all your ideas, main points and background behind characters as you see them currently.
2. Don’t Edit Prematurely
I know it is very tempting to edit your ideas as you go along writing them. After all, the creative mind is always thinking of an infinite amount of possibilities, and it can be hard not to change an original idea for a better one. However, you do not want edit your work while you are brainstorming; Instead, list all the possible characteristics, outcomes and climaxes that could come into effect. Doing so will keep your options open to how each character and scenes can actually develop. Eventually, you may find a few of those ideas will actually fit together sequentially, and you can edit the unnecessary storylines out.
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