Finding the Idea
This is an episode of Matt Gemmell's Trouble With Writing, a podcast with focused, hard-won techniques for solving all the problems you might encounter when planning, writing, and editing novels. Brief and to-the-point, with episodes you can listen to in any order.
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Finding the Idea
Noticing story ideas is a skill you can learn, as is finding the emotional centre of a tale.
You can also download the episode audio file here.
Episode Notes
The two biggest problems new writers encounter is finding ideas, and then turning those ideas into stories. In this episode, I discuss how you can cultivate the ability to do both of those things.
I also mention my free weekly mini-stories as an example of getting to the core of a story idea.
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