‘BBB’ & A Weekend Quest For Distraction


by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

They a writer’s best ideas come from “BBB” — Bed, Bath and Bus. It’s when you’re in bed, or taking a bath or on the bus that you realize how to solve a writing problem or break through a blockage.

Things are moving extremely fast with my outline right now, but I really need to distract myself. I need to read something totally new or go for walk and smoke a cigar in a new place. Something, anything, to stroke my creativity in a new and unexpected fashion.

We got this.

I will note that my “textbook,” Stieg Larsson’s “The Girl Who Played With Fire” is becoming less and less applicable to the story. It’s still a great resource because it’s a book I can read over and over and over again, but I’ve left it as any sort of source of inspiration when it comes to what I was using it for — structure.

I’ve figured out my own structure for this novel. But, like I said, the issue right now is to let myself grow distracted so I can tap into my native creativity. I’m so glad I didn’t “just write” a few years ago when random cocksuckers on the Internet demanded it.

I was right to do development.

Author: Shelton Bumgarner

I am the Editor & Publisher of The Trumplandia Report

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