Writer's Fallout Shelter

(1) Write down an imaginary conversation on writing (and anything else) with someone that might be able to help. Stephen King is my favourite author, but somehow I found it to daunting to have a conversation with him, so all my written conversations are with Dean Koontz. My notebook is punctuatued with them (halfway through stories - anywhere I feel the need). This makes you write something, and it seems mysteriously to give you a clearer perspective and a different view point. Bit spooky really. (Perhaps Dean Koontz is writing the mirror of my conversations).

(2) Right about someone you can see. For example in a coffee shop imagine what the two guys on the next table are talking about.

(3) On a blank piece of paper put your starting idea in the middle and draw a circle around it. Join it (with lines/arrows) to other related ideas in circles (a mind map really).

I am the worst procrastinator I know. I also know it can be very hard work getting an idea started and then taking it somewhere. Just write any old drivel and keep picking away at it.

Good Luck
Write on!!!
AngelEyes