Start Small, Start Now
- 10 Rules to let the words Flow:
- Do Your Best, For Yourself.
- Focus on the Process.
- And People will come.
Writing for Pleasure
- That’s your only objective.
- That’s what will Jumpstart the process.
- If you write for Pleasure, you will always return to the page.
- Write 4 Words
- 4 things you think about all the time.
- 4 things you’re absorbed by.
- What’s the 1st thing you think about in the morning?
- What’s the last thing you think about in the evening?
- Don’t like it?
- Think about something else
- Still not?
- Switch
- Not anymore?
- Try again
- There are no lower subjects.
- There are no stupid subjects.
- There are no boring subjects.
- They can be as Mundane as you wish.
- They can be as Extravagant as you wish.
- They are your words.
- Write your Words.
- Speak your Words.
- Do Your Best, For Yourself.
- Focus onto Execution.
- And People will come.
Write Fast
- Proficiency is the other reason you’ll want to write everyday.
- Writing fast, writing to produce volume is the way to proficiency.
- Soon enough, you’ll become cleaner, clearer & more impactant.
- You don’t need to know all the rules of Writing.
- Your rules are enough.
- Try to write a page every 15′.
- Even if you do half, a quarter of it, stop after 15′.
- Do it for a month.
- If you have more than 15′ per day to dedicate to it scale it up while keeping 1page/15′ as a minimum.
- Do Your Best, For Yourself.
- Focus onto Implementation.
- And People will come.
Making a small Map
- Start small.
- Draw a plain, a small wood, a glade, an Island, the inside of a cafe, or a bedroom.
- Start with a little room.
- What is there in this room?
- What do you see?
- Why are you here?
- What are you looking for?
- You’re inside a motor room with 2 fellow mechanics/engineers.
- You’re attempting to optimize the AI fuel’s use.
- She doesn’t understand the command and it takes you 3 full days to input proper instructions.
- You succeed.
- You’re exhausted, the quartermaster comes in with refreshments & congratulations.
- You enjoy this simple bottle of lemon water, because lemons are rare in your world, they remind you of the cottage you’ve grown in & you’re down to the ground.
- There’s a sweet, unusual after-taste coming to your head from the bottom of the flask…
- You wake up.
- The AI seems to have ‘forgotten’ the good words you’ve instated into her & 1 of your mates has disappeared.
- What is there in this room?
- The Computer
- 3 People
- Furniture
- Why are you here?
- Teach an AI?
- Spend time with your mates?
- Receive Congratulations?
- A map will always facilitate the writing.
- Do Your Best, For Yourself.
- Focus onto Repetition.
- And People will come.
Friends help
- 4 Brains work longer than 1
- Ask for ideas
- Ask for input
- Ask for solutions
- Explore your world with your friends
- Allow them to model your world
Ask Your Friends about:
- Maps & Locations
- How do they imagined it?
- Can they draw it?
- Can they compose a piece of music to define it?
- Would they rest here?
- Would they fight here?
- Would it bore them?
- Threats & Ennemies
- Do they feel pressured?
- Are they excited?
- Do they feel depressed?
- Characters
- How do they picture her?
- Can they represent her?
- Can they compose a theme for her?
- Scenes
- How is the Consistency?
- How were the Transitions between each location?
- Listen to them.
- They’ll have a lot of improvement ideas.
- They’ll have terrible ideas as well.
- Improve them together
- This is a shared story.
- Change yours, adapt yours.
- Engage them.
- 4 People will always come to better Story/Game Mechanics than 1.
Create 4 Characters,
Create 4 Cardinals
Create 4 Characters:
- 4 Characters you can use in every story.
- How will you write them?
- How will you rewrite them?
- 4 Friends.
- How will these 2 Friends be?
- 4 Favorite characters.
- What are your favorite characters?
- These are 4 Archetypes.
- They are the 4 Boundaries of your world.
- Combine them 2 by 2 to create deeper characters.
- Switch a Behavior trait with another for more diversity.
Create a Story in 10 Words
The Frame
- Take a Sheet of paper horizontally.
- Draw 2 axes.
- 1 Horizontal & 1 Vertical
- Draw an Ellipse.
- Draw a Central Circle.
- Write your Title inside it.
The Chapters
- Place 10 circles on your Ellipse.
- Write a word in each circle.
- 10 Simple, Clear Words.
- 10 Words you can generate in a 1 min
- 10 Words that make you happy when you see them
- 10 Words that make you happy when you hear them
- 10 Words that make you happy when you pronounce them
- 10 Words that make your Brain Shine
The Scenes
- Around each of your 10 words write 3 other words.
- 3 words that are directly linked to the central word.
- Directly: If your main word is Butterfly, write Wings, Antennas, Blue.
- You’ve got the 3 paragraphs of the chapter.
- Use them as much as possible.
