Apr
21
Be careful of the rabbit hole
Now that you have your life and interests up on the wall, Holly takes that big map of ideas and turns it loose.
You have to come up with three writing project ideas, using techniques for your subconscious or muse to guide you so that you find projects that can be FUN and EXCITING.
This is a big deal. If you have trouble coming up with ideas to write about, then this week’s exercise helps you explore your map and look for weird connections between topics that interest you.
But alas for me, this is the week when I started to go down the rabbit hole and away from doing Holly’s course material.
I write about it here in case you’re the kind of person who might start projects but get yourself distracted, jumping from one thing to another.
One of my ideas from Holly’s exercise had the potential to lead to a series of comedy sketches, which required collaborating with actors, a film crew, the whole shebang. It looks great in my head.
This is a good example of when I get ahead of myself: I start thinking of all the details about HOW a project could work, and what topics I could cover given just one simple idea from an exercise in Holly’s course.
I haven’t actually written anything yet!
It was the following week’s course material that helped me pitch this idea to a potential collaborator (notice how I’m starting to go away from Holly’s exercises and off on my own tangent).
So in the next installment I’ll describe what happened next.