A Knock at the door
I’m unfamiliar with the ins and outs of running a blog, but I do know a thing or two about crafting a story. With that in mind, I’ll be posting a short series of ruminations on writing and the process that goes into it. I’ll learn about blogging, you’ll learn about writing.
As with any endeavor, starting can be difficult. In the writing world, we like to delineate between “planners” and “pantsers” (as a “pantser” myself, I prefer the term “discovery writer”). Some writers plan and outline meticulously before they put a single word to paper, while others write to see where the story takes them. You can easily see how this is more of a spectrum than a dichotomy, and from my own experience, I would recommend avoiding putting yourself in a box.
Try some planning and outlining. If that fails to get you started, maybe you should grab hold of a single spark of an idea and proceed from there. Who knows where it will take you?
I’d say more, but some guy with a fedora partially obscuring his face is at the door.
Uh, so I found out what the guy in the trench coat and fedora wanted. He came to tell me my father had been killed in what appeared to be a gang altercation, and that I needed to come identify the body.
That this news was unexpected would be an understatement. If my father was lying on a slab in the morgue, who, then, had I just spoken to on the phone?
