I was charged when I woke up with this new idea for a story. So much so that I did something I normally didn’t — I jotted down the concept immediately. Normally I don’t react at all when a fresh idea pops into my head, no matter how much it excites me. My reasoning for this is if I can’t remember it two weeks later, the idea wasn’t as great as I initially thought.
But this one got me to sum up the premise on a stack of index cards I keep in my room by my bed. And I was writing down the concept for the two characters, an idea popped into my head for a third one.
I felt that I already had the heart of the conflict set, with two characters making opposing claims and the story would revolve around who was lying. And I knew right away that if I added this third character, and the concept I had for them, that central conflict would still be there, but it would add a whole other layer to it that would turn the story on its head.
I wasn’t sure if I was going to add it, but I found it extremely encouraging that I was already building on the idea of the story.
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