So, with a very loose new idea that came to me, I decided to try something new and scribble down all of my ideas for the world in a notebook. And, in this notebook, a world has started being created… very, very slowly.

I think that this new way of thinking about it may work, though I feel like my language arts teachers may have made me think in their way a little bit, because I started wondering what the themes of the stories are. I never did that before, but maybe it’s a good idea, so I can set the tone of the story better?

We’ll see if the Great Notebook Idea works, right?

Also, on a sidenote, I also have a habit of drawing my characters. From one of my older stories, I had an entire five or ten pages in a sketchbook devoted to characters from it. I like knowing how the characters look in my head, really, is my point here. Visualizing my world makes it easier to write about it!