Writing & Jumbled Thoughts
Photo by Amador Loureiro on Unsplash Writing is a constantly changing process that jumbles up your thoughts a thousand different ways. As a writer there are constant scenes, characters, character flaws, memories, voices, and many other items vying for you to make them your priority in your writing. You sit down to right thinking about Paul. He is a character you have worked on for a very long time. It has taken you months to hone him and his characteristics down. Now comes a memory of some other character you wrote, some person you knew actually named Paul, then your mind wanders to Paul Newman and all your thoughts are now jumbled up. How can you possible sit and write anything now? If you write your characters out, your scenes out, something out, then it is in stone. Nope definitely not. Might I suggest a way to un-jumble all those thoughts? Take a stack of colorful index cards and give your scenes one color, your characters another, yo...