THIS post was originally posted in Pacific Indigenous Writers, a page in Facebook.
ON good days, you can have a lot of
ideas bouncing around in your mind.
Be prepared for those days … and when
the ideas, storylines or plots come, jot them down quickly (in a notebook, note pad,
anything) before they disappear.
Today as I was going to take my shower
before coming to work (I start at 2.00pm), I had this wonderful plot or storyline
emerging.
It is not new though. And it is built
around things that are of interest to me – music, education and reaching out to
help others, as well as about the difficult times that affect millions of
people in our country … and other parts of the world.
It is about a prisoner coming out of a
good number of years of serving a sentence for manslaughter and finding it hard
to adapt to a world that has changed in the decade he was away.
When the time is right, you will know
more about the storyline.
I still have to get other stuff (that I
am working on) out of the way before I concentrate on developing the storyline
and characters.
My point of sharing all these is that
you, as an aspiring writer, should keep your mind sharp and open – you must remain
vigilant.
There will be moments when the heavens
will open and your storylines will appear. Just be ready to pen them while they
are fresh. Then gradually, slowly, consistently you develop the story.
And it is going to be a “personal”
project.
Nobody needs to know about it – and
possible nobody will be encouraging you to develop that. You must develop that
yourself.
You saw the “light” – nobody did, so
do something about the “light”.
Cheers.
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