I can usually arrive at something that’s more interesting than what I started with. If I can just start writing anything, then I usually will find my way to something good, eventually, if I keep going, even if it starts in some really mundane place. I’ve been realizing the way I get my ideas is through the writing itself. My strategy for that is to pour as much content on the page as I can, so that then I have something to work with and transform from there. I find first drafts challenging and, actually, I prefer the revision stage, because it seems so daunting to create something out of nothing. I think in the early stages, I like to do a lot of really rough draft brainstorming, trying to generate a lot of words, even though I know they’re not going to be part of the final draft.
I’m working on a novel now, which started by taking a weird interest in something and circling around it.
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