The idea is not the most important thing
But it is still pretty important
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Yesterday, I finished the first draft on a novella I wrote to kick off a mainstream SF adventure series. I've been struggling to make a different idea work for a few months and finally gave up on the idea (or at least set it aside indefinitely). I had no idea what I was going to write instead and I was months behind where I'd wanted to be with a mainstream pen.
And then a fateful Saturday morning, I went to bed after feeding my cats, and I dreamed. Just a snippet of a character in a vague setting.
When I got up, I spent the day brainstorming other characters and a world. All growing from one incredibly brief snippet.
I've mentioned before that ideas are the easy part. Even here, that's true. I dreamed a fragment. Growing that fragment into a book and then a series? That has been and will be work.
It's not that I couldn't write anything without this idea, either. I did lots of other writing while I was struggling to find one for what became this project. I published at least two books in that period while I struggled to find the in. Each of the things I worked on in parallel had their own ideas or impulses they began with.
The ones I haven't finished yet are something you can't read because I haven't done the work needed to finish them.
The idea still isn't the most important thing. But it is pretty important.
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