#theinkwar

A problem I keep facing almost every single time I sit down in front of the computer is how exactly do you, the inexperienced, passionate, flooding-with-creativity aspriring writer, choose what to write?

If you're anything like me, there is a sea of different ideas floating around in your head. Sometimes the waves will bring one idea to the shore and you will spend the morning daydreaming about a couple's first kiss. Then,  when you get home after school or work, you'll jolt down a note or two, maybe even write a complete scene. Sometimes the waves are less kind and they break loose on the poor little beach that is your brain, splashing salty drops everywhere without order or coherence. You see a pretty color on the autumn leaves beneath your window and think 'ha! I can put this in one of the many novels I plan to write!' and one thing leads to the next and you end up spending the night drafting three completely different WIPs that may or may not mention autumn leaves.

The thing is all your ideas are absolutely fabulous. They are yours and you're proud of them and you can't wait to write them. You think of the worldbuilding and squirm in delight. You fantasize about the romance and tap dance in your room. You go through all the delightful jokes you'll cleverly throw in and smile idiotically in the middle of a sociology lecture. You love the novels you haven't written yet with more passion than Snape loved Harry's mom. No one can blame you for that, can they?

Weeeell...someone can. You. You blame your amazing ideas for being so amazing you cannot decide which is the most amazing and finally - oh god, please, finally - get down to writing it.

So I want to ask you, fellow tumblers extraordinaire, how do you choose the most amazing out of a sea of amazingness?