Do you jot down story ideas before you begin? And what do they look like?

[SmilingLez]

I definitely write in my journal any ideas that I have. I am a poet, sometimes I will put single sentences on post-it notes and put the post-it notes on the dining room table and rearrange them until the free verse sings to me

 

[anthrodisiac]

Separate from my erotic writing I have hundreds of pages of notes detailing multiple lore-heavy universes: species, terms, religions, groups, empires, people.

And for this stuff I have a 30-page document with dozens of anthros, monsters, creatures, aliens, demons, and exactly 0 humans.

 

[IWroteThis]

I definitely write in my journal any ideas that I have. I am a poet, sometimes I will put single sentences on post-it notes and put the post-it notes on the dining room table and rearrange them until the free verse sings to me

I had forgotten about my Literotica poetry file. I haven't looked at that in ages. I haven't looked at any of my non-Literotica poetry either…

 

[JohnBJohn]

I have three Word pages of story ideas dating back to when I first started submitting stories in 2016. I'm usually anywhere from 2 sentences to one paragraph to remind me the basic idea behind the potential story. I have a couple that I have no idea what I was thinking when I made the note - those are usually shorter.

Some of what I have in that idea list will never get written. But I know there are currently 5 or 6 that I seriously want to complete. Now whether they get written is an entirely different story.

There are some story notes that don't really speak to me anymore. I understand the idea, but the muse has fled and I don't think I'll try to power through to write those.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

I definitely write in my journal any ideas that I have. I am a poet, sometimes I will put single sentences on post-it notes and put the post-it notes on the dining room table and rearrange them until the free verse sings to me

That's almost how I write chaptered stories, but it's index cards instead of post-its.