The ripple effect

Have you ever written the beginnings of a scene, maybe a snatch of something that might have been triggered by a picture on television, a comment, a song… or whatever else usually launches your writerly brain into feverish action… and found it lacks a little something?

Don’t worry, it happens to most people. Just because you’ve had a random thought doesn’t mean it will grow into anything concrete. That’s the way the brain works: overloaded with incoming information from all sides, it’s unable to process everything into a writeable idea. If it did your synapses