Blogs as Idea Banks
Do people use blogs for the purpose of having a searchable bank of plot, character and other story ideas? If not, why not? Isn’t that a kick-ass idea? Here’s where I’m coming from…
So, don’t know if you follow Jenny Crusie’s blog but she’s started a new one with two other writers - they’re all collaborating on a book and posting pretty much everything they’re doing in that collaboration online. They chat via IM every Sunday night and post their entire chats. It’s pretty interesting though a huge amount of info/brainstorming to follow.
I’ve recently begun playing around with the idea of collaborating on a story - more on that when it’s more fleshed out - but anyway, seeing Jenny Crusie’s blog made me think, hmm, my partner and I could do this just to have idea-bank. Iit’s not like we’d have an audience like Jenny C and team, but that’s not the point. We’d have a searchable place to both dump ideas - hell, this would work even if they’re just notes I’m keeping for myself. I love my Moleskine notebooks, but they’re not very easy to reference as I’m insanely disordered and don’t have any kind of system. HMM!
In early 2008 Michelle left a fulfilling career as interactive director in an integrated marketing agency to pursue her passion for writing great stories filled with fascinating, intense, real characters who will do anything necessary to achieve their dreams. She’s co-written the audio-play of a Louis L’Amour short story produced by Bantam and Beau L’Amour, worked as an executive assistant for a Hollywood publicist, taught English in Spain, and enjoyed the lofty title of Romance Director running the personals sections of a newsweekly in Los Angeles. She lives in Austin, Texas and spends her spare time adding poems to