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Daily archive for October 18, 2009

What do you do with your ideas once you have them?

On October 18, 2009   /   Writing  
Tags: basic writing, ideas, starting, tools

Once you “have an idea,” the next bit of the process for most writers is developing it into a story. How one develops an idea depends largely on the writer and the idea. For a lot of us, the first stage is kind of like the effect

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