Welcome to the A to Z Challenge. This year I’m blogging about the Behind the Scenes for the Echoes Trilogy – a story a started writing about six years ago.
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Sometimes when I’m working on a book my thoughts get all jumbled up in my head, and I can’t pick one idea out to focus on. There have several ways I’ve found to help un-jumble my thoughts, so I wanted to share those with y’all today.
- Go and take a walk
- Swing (on a swing set. listening to music. kicking my legs back and forth.)
- Find someone to have a character chat with – meaning you text-chat with someone, but both of you play the role of various characters instead of being yourself
- Read writing prompts online
- Sit down and write whatever random things pop into my mind, then read back through it and see if I came up with any good ideas
- Cut grass
- Rapidly clean my office
- Make coffee and light a candle and turn on inspirational music
- Talk about the story idea with someone
- Look through book reviews online
(Random note: I’m currently sick, and my brain has been quite foggy recently. Hence the late post today.)
Noveltea 
Aw, feel better, Aidyl! Those are great ways to un-jumble your thoughts – we have a swing in our backyard and you come to mind whenever I swing on it, because I know your love of swinging! 🙂 Why is it that so many ideas come while cleaning?
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YAY for swings in the backyard! That’s fantastic. 🙂 And awww, it makes me feel special that you think of me when you swing. And YES I’m currently wanting to go swing right now. 😉
And who knows why so many ideas come while cleaning? Maybe it’s cause our brain is rewarding us for doing mundane work? 😉
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If I didn’t have my posts ready in advance, I’d never keep up. Well, I barely keep up with visits and comments as it is. Feel better.
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I generally like to get posts done ahead of time, but this year I didn’t choose my subject until way late. And yes, I’m currently very behind in comments – although a large part of that is due to the fact that I’ve been sick for the last while. Thank you for commenting on all of my posts! It makes me happy. 🙂
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Those are such awesome and refreshing ideas! Character chats, that sounds like it would be humorous at times! I really hope you get to feeling better real soon. Praying for ya!
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YES! Character chats generally lead to me smiling a lot, and even laughing out loud at times. Aww, thank you so much for praying for me! That means a lot! =)
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These are some awesome ideas, Lydia. I really need to work on getting up and just moving or doing something creative when the writing “juice” is not flowing. I think it would help me to keep pressing on.
-Bekah
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Determining to keep pressing on even when it’s work and not fun? Yeah, it’s hard, but really worth it! Keep job with keeping on keeping on!
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