I like the idea of planning what I write. I love the look of a clean new piece of paper or a crisp clear computer screen, all fresh and ready to take down whatever pops into my mind. I love the fact that anything I put down is new and has no mistakes yet, and that it can go any direction I want it to go in.

And then I have moments when I’m not really ready to start into a larger epic, and I feel the need to plan out my brain. Sometimes there are just too many thoughts running through my mind, too many possibilities to consider. And even if I have a thought about an over all story, I get sidetracked thinking about what I actually want to happen in the story, what its really going to be about.

The truth is I love to write about people. They are the basis for any story really. And if you know the people that you are writing about then then story should be easier to get down, right? But its not always that easy for me. I get a lot of my ideas strangely enough from dreams or passing fancy’s I can’t really explain, and I’m okay with that. The thing that I’m not very good with is figuring out all of the complexities of the story that surrounds the characters that come to me. I usually get the basis of the ideas pounded out right away, and how they are going to come across the larger problem. I even get to how the bulk of said problem will unfold, but the thing that I have a problem with are the endings. I honestly don’t know the ending until it comes. I always wonder if I should know that before hand, or if its something that the story needs to tell you as your telling it.

I wonder if that makes any sense really, or if its just me trying to rationalize something that goes on in my mind.