Ancient thread resurrected....
But yeah, I need either a "boy won't that look cool" thing or a *JJ Abrams voice* mystery box before I start. Things that are based on dreams are usually the former and I try to find the what got us to that point as I'm writing or developing the idea. Or there's a ~mystery box~* that I want to figure out. If I don't have any sort of idea or idea of where I'm going then I get paralyzed by the infinite choices and nothing happens. But the idea doesn't need to be from me, I could ask other people for ideas or prompts or look at those writing-prompt things. But at this point I have so many ideas hoarded up I don't really need to look outside for things. Only really need to do it for blog posts for work lol
*I'm using the "ooh here's something we don't know what it is, keep watching to find out" definition of mystery box that other people use and not the "a blank word document is a mystery box because it can be anything" definition that JJ used in his TED talk
But yeah, I need either a "boy won't that look cool" thing or a *JJ Abrams voice* mystery box before I start. Things that are based on dreams are usually the former and I try to find the what got us to that point as I'm writing or developing the idea. Or there's a ~mystery box~* that I want to figure out. If I don't have any sort of idea or idea of where I'm going then I get paralyzed by the infinite choices and nothing happens. But the idea doesn't need to be from me, I could ask other people for ideas or prompts or look at those writing-prompt things. But at this point I have so many ideas hoarded up I don't really need to look outside for things. Only really need to do it for blog posts for work lol
*I'm using the "ooh here's something we don't know what it is, keep watching to find out" definition of mystery box that other people use and not the "a blank word document is a mystery box because it can be anything" definition that JJ used in his TED talk