Well, folks, for the last week I have been jotting down ideas for future stories. This is a touchy subject because I feel obligated to develop a story once I have written down its idea, even if months have passed since I jotted the idea onto a 3×5 card.
Sometimes I write the idea down and don’t return to it for years. Most of my novel-length works go like this; for example, I had the idea for a prose poem set in the Middle East, and it was a year before I sat down and developed my fantasy military novel, Forward Base Down. I also worked out the basic plot lines for the next two books in the trilogy.
Ideas are pretty easy to find, much harder to develop. Some authors stick to the same half a dozen basic story lines and rarely try anything new, while others try new things with every story. Just about anything that happens is fuel for new tales. So catch those ideas and jot them down for future development…
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