In today’s episode, Angie and Elizabeth report in their debut trailer camping experience, amd compare it to a creative process. Meanwhile,Angie is doing animation, and Elizabeth gives a submissions update. They turn them to answering a listener’s question about which project to choose, exploring the following approaches:
- Go pitch it to somebody (excitable).
- Ask yourself, Is it big enough to be a book?
- Write a treatment, premise, longline, or outline/ scenelist.
- Be messy.
- Explore whether your multiple projects are in fact connected to each other.
- Put your notes on the wall. Look at them.
- Brainstorm scenes.
- Schedule table reads.
- Read aloud to someone or record yourself or ask someone else to read your work to you… even your computer…
- Work on multiple projects at once…(and the pros and cons of doing so)
- Take time off/ let it sit.
What if, conversely, you have no ideas? Angie and Elizabeth argue about generating ideas by
asking questions that inspire you or letting yourself be impacted by the world.
RIP Beverly Cleary and Larry McMurtry
