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Tag Archives: generating ideas

Generating Story 5: Hunt Zing

By John Brown | November 19, 2011 - 12:28 am |September 9, 2018 On Writing
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Even after you choose a genre, you still need to develop ideas for character, setting, problem, plot, and text. What do you do? How do you develop those ideas? The first thing you do is hunt zing. Feeding the beast Zing is any idea that turns you on, sparks your imagination, or stokes your desire. →

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Generating Story 4: The Story Setup

By John Brown | November 17, 2011 - 12:31 am |May 12, 2012 On Writing
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Okay, I lied. I was going to get into idea generation techniques, but decided to do one more short post on development objectives. Actually, I suppose this is a technique. In the last post, I said one of the main objectives of your initial story development is to have the story to come to life →

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