From Echoes to Ideas: How to Create and Craft Stories
There was once a time when I would open a blank page and blog away. Any topic within the broad spectrum of books or ideas. A time when I followed the wealth of ideas concept closely. Such blogging was inspiring, it led to the discovery of new ideas, and as I blogged, I would hear echoes of other writers' sayings, echoes from such disparate names as Flannery O'connor, Charles Mungoshi, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ernest Hemingway, Dambudzo Marechera, Chinua Achebe, Robert Frost, E.M. Forster, James Joyce and others. Echoes such as: Don't write, follow the dream; how do you know what you are thinking unless you start writing; I write because I feel too much, start a story with a specific individual doing something and you will have a story, I write to discover what I am thinking, I write to capture the ideas I don't know I have. Hence, I was thinking of my blog, and the process of blogging, as tapping into a wealth of ideas. Yes, there was once such a time. And now, that time is comin...