When I wrote my first two short stories, I just wrote… let the story take off running and see where it led me. I had a good idea what general direction each was going, but as far as the destination… no idea. The third short was a bit more directed… I had a direction and an ending, but the path to get there could be as meandering as it wanted to be. My Nano novel started like that. I had a beginning (pretty much the first four chapters already written), a middle (kinda), and an end (which changed a little bit, but was damn close to the original.)
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Last week I touched upon the seed of a story, and how we need to keep an eye out for them. But why the seed analogy when you’re talking about a jungle adventure, Mike? (I hear you ask.) Well… that jungle we’re about to head into? Every single tree and bush and vine that we are going to come across? THOSE are the fruition of those seeds. THEY are the finished novels… the short stories… the works of fiction and non-fiction that we are going to be inundated with.
