So I like to write. No, really! But anyway, even though I don’t get around to it as often as I’d like – mostly because I can always find an excuse for why I’m not able to – I still like to collect little snippets of information, weird images or odd news bits, so that I have a load of sources of inspiration to turn to when I actually decide to put my ass in the chair and my fingers on the keyboard.
I started off using Delicious to bookmark these things but that soon became so unwieldy that I gave up on it and a lot of the bookmarks would go dead after a while and not work anyway so that was that. Then, up till recently I used to keep clip them to my Evernote account and keep them for when I needed them, but eventually that also got a bit too big to handle and then organising it became a drag and then I couldn’t find stuff and yadda yadda ……
Anyway, in my guise as Literary Editor, I was interviewing a writer for SCI-FI-LONDON and after we were done he was quite complimentary about the quality and diversity of the questions I’d asked because he usually gets the same old stuff, in particular “Where do you get your ideas from?” (he gets his out of a newsletter he gets from this old lady in Poughkeepsie, about once a month) and that’s when it hit me. Why was I saving all this stuff for me? What was I going to do with it all anyway? Other people might want to share the bounty! I’m sure there are other would-be writers out there, desperate for stuff to write about and short on inspiration. So here we are, Just Plot – a waiting room for plot devices, a place you can come and look around and see the stuff I’ve collected, and am still collecting, and read the suggestions and see if it sparks your creativity, nudges you in the right direction to do some writing, and gets you out of your writing rut.
Hope it helps, and drop me a line if anything works for you, I’d love to see what you make of it.
