Last stream we continued our Rubbish to Published series, where we start from absolutely nothing and create something “publishable.”
We’d already come up with our story idea in the previous stream, so this time we took the next step: creating an idea toolbox.
An idea toolbox is basically a bunch of brainstorming. You come up with lots and lots of ideas by following these steps:
#1. Ask a question about your story idea
#2. Write whatever answers pop into your head (you can have multiple, even contradictory answers!)
#3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 until you have about a page full of information
#4. Read through your page and pick out the parts that “spark emotion,” things that get you excited to write
#5. Compile all your favorite parts together, then go back to step 1
As always, chat came up with some great questions and answers based on the idea we came up with. Here’s where we finally ended up: