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Okay, I confess, I write non-fiction. But it's still creative!! I think I've picked up two basic rules about planning writing, which are nicely contradictory.
1. Be very clear about exactly what you can do with this material. Don't promise to write the history of the decline of the west if you've only got material relating to the Welsh wine industry.
2. Be absolutely open about the possibilities of what you might do with this material. Listen to comments from (semi-) interested friends and colleagues. Let yourself daydream. Keep coming back to the material and imagining how else it might be presented or used. Don't be afraid of re-thinking.
It's a tightrope! You need to balance between the two.
Good luck to all fellow writers living in fiction land.
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