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Writing Excuses 10.2: I Have an Idea; What Do I Do Now?

Writing Excuses

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Generating Ideas for Your Book

Riney: I write 150 word sketches of possible stories around this idea. This really helps you identify the promises you need to be making early in your book based on the tone that you want your book to have. Take two of the ideas and combine them into one story. Change the ages and genders of everybody in the story. And then with the last one, we want you to pick an idea where a choice was made and have a character make the opposite choice in this story.

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