the writer's room discussion

Any tips on how you decide what kind of ideas of yours are bookworthy? I feel like I have so many ideas but never know how to approach narrowing down a story. How do you find ideas? How do you feel when writing a story?

I've also never tried to write a full-length story so the idea of it is so daunting!! <3

iirc this was the triangle-method guy, he said to write a story that will change your life, and I always think about that.

If you want to change your life financially for example, you can write a very commercial book. Or, if you went through or are going through something profound in your life(love, sickness, grief, regret, acceptance, etc) writing something that parallels that will change you emotionally.

Or if you just REALLY LOVE something (like say, star wars or shakespeare or a certain time in history or astrophysics) and you will enjoy researching it, pick an idea that lets you use your existing knowledge or that you'll enjoy doing the research for. IMO the most important thing is to write a story you'll enjoy writing, as in, enjoy the process of writing it.

Hope that helps!

Hey, whenever I'm bombarded with ideas and don't know which one to work on first, I draw a rough plot of them all. While I'm making it, with whichever plot comes easy to write and build up, is the winner.

From the plot twists to the banter, sometimes the brain just keeps on creating one thing after the other for one story but gets stuck at the roughest idea of another.
For example, with one I know how the couple meets, the tropes, the initial dialogues the foreshadowing and everything but in the other plot I'm stuck with girl meets boy, boy leaves the girl and then comes back asking her to take him back.
But what after that? I don't know.
So I will choose the first story.

And I don't work on two projects at once and nor do I think if any idea is bookworthy or not because it all depends of the writer and how they want to make that small idea grow.

My best ideas are usually the ones that appeal to me from an aesthetic standpoint. I like to think about the general feel the story would have in terms of world and characters, and what kind of story with fit that feeling well.

Interest also has a lot to do with it. When an idea is working for me, it has a tendency to take up all the free space in my brain and sort of become a constant presence in my mind. An idea like that is usually worth writing, in my experience.

I have story ideas generating on the backburner basically 24/7, and I think about what I might like to write about until I settle on an idea that I think could be thematically interesting or unique. Then I get into a planning phase to see if there's enough there in the idea to build an actual story on.

I write down the basics of all my ideas, just to keep for later, then decide which one appeals to me most and begin writing. But, if I don't like it, then I can go back and choose another.

I’m pretty weird. How I decide if an idea is if I can envision an ending scene. A full ending scene start to finish like a scene from a movie. And if I can make a playlist on Spotify.

It depends on what you're aiming for. Usually a song, fact, or picture gives me a concept, and I research its plausibility, coming up with characters to suit it.