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#WritersCoffeeClub June 9: How do you select ideas from all the ones floating around?

I write my fixations, the ideas that won't go away. I recently got over a significant period of mental health related writer's block on fiction, and things are going pretty well now that I have the ability to be haunted again.

My writing for games, collaborative fiction, and non-fiction pitches is more systematised, however.

I list various options (I use CherryTree to sort all my projects), do supporting research and sketch out key themes, characters (where present) and the general gist of where everything needs to end up.

For pitches or collaborative work, these then go to the client/partner/project lead, who'll either accept them or not, and I'll build on them as required by the brief.

For solo game projects, once I have enough of a structure, I'll start sketching plot and events out using a tool such as Twine, on paper, or in-engine, depending.