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I never know exactly where to take the stories and I guess some people would say "well write a plan" but I just have an idea for something and never know exactly where it's headed.
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I my experience it takes more than a great idea. I have way more ideas than finished stories. You need to know the set up and how you want to end the story and how you are going to get there and most importantly who is going to get you there. All that takes a lot of thinking time. Months, maybe years. And a lot of commitment to the story. You have to really feel this is something worth investing huge amounts of time to draft and redraft and redraft again. And you need confidence in your muse to come through with the right idea at the right time, even when you mind feels like it is a complete blank. Mostly though it has to be fun. You need characters you like in situations that interest you the writer. Anyway, that's what works for me ... when it works at all.