How To Brainstorm A Great Story Idea \\ Great Ideas Series #1
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- čas přidán 2. 07. 2024
- I'm always asked, "How do I come up with ideas for my stories?"
In this new video series, I show you how. In this first video, I give you some of my favorite tips and methods on how to brainstorm to find those great ideas. Be sure to follow along in the series, as I'll show you how to store and evaluate those new ideas, too.
Let me know in the comments what your favorite brainstorming tips and methods are.
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
4:05 Open Your Mind
5:50 Keep Track of Everything
7:22 Pick a Partner
8:09 Get in the Zone
9:37 HAVE FUN!
11:08 Create a Book of Master Lists
14:02 Play the "What If..." Game
15:48 Pick from Real Life
17:21 Immerse & Daydream
20:10 The Bounce Method
21:27 Conclusion
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So sorry about the audio in this video. I know it's not awful throughout but I was having issues with my mic and did not have time to redo the whole thing. Hope you enjoy the content, regardless! Thanks for watching!
It's not that bad... When the information is as great and motivating as what you're offering, no one notices/cares about the audio quality. Thank you!
The audio is fine to me
No need to apologise! You're a rockstar for doing all this for us ❤️
As always Sarra is not only writing amazing books for us but also sharing more than anyone could expect from her. Thank you
I just started writing the first book of a hopefully 6-8 book series, and I’m already so scared it won’t work. I needed this inspiration!
Oooh, fun!! It's going to be great!
I love to use Notions for my Story plots, different point in the story, a mix of dialogue - then I pull it into Scrivener with different screenplay settings
I love the top 10 lists idea. I'm going to have to try that. I have a brainstorming notebook, and often times I will set the time for 10 minutes and write down situations. I write kidlit, so it's always something like "A kid brings a puppy to school and things go crazy." "A kid goes fishing with her grandpa." Or whatever to see if anything sparks. Most of them don't, but that's okay. Sometimes there's gold. Thanks and I'm looking forward to the rest of the series :)
Bounce is like a debate but for ideas!!
How did you know I needed to know this? And a series...I'm all in. Thanks.
This series is coming at the perfect time for me I literally pushed my couch back this morning to get sticky notes on my wall
Woohoo!
Can’t wait for the masterlist tour! ❤️ Great series!
Love love love this!
I love this! Thank you Sara! ❤️
Thank you for this series, Sarra! Your tips are super helpful and I am looking forward to the next videos!
Much love! xx
Great video, Sarra! And thank you for the brainstorming workbook! Super excited about this series!!!
As always, so helpful. Thank you. 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
This is EXACTLY what I needed today! Thank you Sarra! ♥️
Your content is always so much fun and so useful, Sarra. Love it!
Oh, this is SO much fun, thank you!
I love when you start video series like this. They are always so encouraging. I'm looking forward to the rest of this series 😍
Great vlog as always! Thank you so much, Sarra.💕
So needed this
Thank you, as always - I needed a new Sarra video today, so this is perfect timing!
OMG Sarra!!! I'm so excited for this series!! I think it's my favorite video of yours yet and I love them all!! So inspiring; it gets me all fired up!
One of my TOP MOST FAVORITE channels ever on youtube. Thank you heart breathings for all your inspiration n good vibes 💫❤️
Thank you! I have lists and piles of stuff, so getting everything a wee bit organized is a helpful tip!
Thank you, Sara! I did a bit of brainstorming tonight, so this was very helpful. I can’t wait for the rest of this series!!
Thanks for the brainstorming tips.
This series may be the push I needed to start. I am excited to see how it goes!
Always an abundance of fun, great, thought-provoking content. Coming across you on Instagram was such a blessing. Thank you so so much!!
I love all of your workbooks. These videos are great!
I needed this. Wondered if you had something about this, went to your playlists and it was at the top. You're a blessing.
Thank you so much for this new series! Love the workbooks. I think now that I have a new printer I'm going to have to print off all of your workbooks and make a dedicated book just for them.
Finished the video with a list of things to try for my art after being stuck in a depressed rut for months 🥺 thank you ❤️
Thank you so much for this! So many of my ideas come from dreams.
Your content is so inspiring! both practical and uplifting. Thank you!
Great video! Your energy was off the chain-I’m so excited for the next video in the series. I keep my ideas in folders on Google docs but I’m liking the idea of a physical binder. Use tabs and keep all my notes for future book ideas cataloged in there. More visual fir me when it’s a physical page I can turn. Thanks for this one!
I’m excited for this new series! I’m writing my second children’s book and I think some of these tips will help!
Very generous to share all this. Not only can I not stick with an idea, i waver between genres and also sometimes don’t want to use my best idea for fear of messing it up and then not being able to use it ever again!
This was so useful! I'm definitely using this next time I need to come up with a new story :D
I love, love, love the book of master lists idea! I've always felt like I should keep an author journal but never really knew what to do with it. This idea is so simple yet powerful, and I'm excited to start on mine. Thank you!
I hit a bump in the road with my writing the passed couple of weeks, this series has come at the perfect time. I will be trying the Pick of Real Life Events and the Bounce method . I love the idea for the Master List Book . I have started the Series Bible which has been a great help too me. Thanks for all you help, you have been a blessing to me!!
I love these. I would love to see more more more!! You are a great encourager!
Another great video Sarra! I've been in a writing slump and you've motivated me to get my brain working again. Your workbook will be really helpful. It's obvious you put alot of work into this. Thanks so much!
Thank you Sarra, I took plenty of notes and ideas. My last brainstorm session was just before Nano last November. I knew I wanted to write a book that involved the sea, so I went on Pinterest and collected a collage of things, from coral reef's to fish to underwater diving, then I began to research pirates, and pirates of the Caribbean came to mind (and shipwrecks)and so the story started unfolding blending history with legend. It was so much fun!
This is exactly what I need right now. Though I am familiar with pretty much all the brainstorming methods out there I still need the reminder und the push and the enthusiasm. Thanks!
Today I decided to start writing again and it was really great to get this video . It is the perfect way to start .
Oh this master list idea is so good. I have so so many notes laying around and in the back of my head I always say “ keep it together, get more insight” gonna work on this this weekend , thanks
This morning i was journaling about how i want to write a new book but didn’t know exactly how to choose the next idea, and just like magic here you are giving me all the answers and inspiration i needed. Well if this is not a sign from the universe that i have to start writing again i dont know what is. 💕✨
Great video, Sarra! My best ideas have come when I don’t like the way another author has taken a story. It starts my mind churning with what if’s.
I loved this video you did. I feel it's going to come in handy especially where I needed some help brainstorming ideas for what I want to get started on as far as writing my book. I also like how you have made it into a workbook to write down all your ideas in and to keep them some place safe so you want ever lose them. Thank you Sarra for sharing. I will be looking for all the new videos in the future.
Love this video. I need to group my ideas together bc I’ve lost them before and that’s an awful feeling.
So needed this right now as feeling in a rut. Thank you Sarah for an inspirational video to get me going again. I write kids picture books and brainstorm around a single word. eg I was asked to write a story about a bunyip (Australian monster) and brainstormed around the word bunyip. When swamp landed on my page, the story wrote itself. Definitely have to try "what if" for the rest of the series.
Yeaaa you got 42k. 👏🏽👏🏽
Thanks for this video :) I wanna get back into writing but I feel really stuck on coming up with great ideas so this video came at the right time. Love all of your suggestions :)
I ALWAYS question my ideas. Brainstorming is huge, I don't have a journal that's solely for that, I definitely need to start one!
What a great idea for a series, I will definitely keep watching. I was curious, what brand notebook is your master list notebook. I love chunky notebooks! Thanks so much for this series.
I love the bounce one, my niece and I are planning some fanfics just to start writing. And 1 idea turned into 3 hahaha started writing 1 with no real direction just because we knew how we wanted it to start. Then planned a second one by how we want the story to develop and is well on its way as every chapter is planned and played. Then just figured out a 3rd one she is itching to start. Its really fun creating all these ideas. But I promised myself that I will finish 1 before planning another lol lets see if I resist hahhahha
I watch tons of movies and listen to audiobooks to gather inspiration as well as brainstorm
I really like that you put an index into your video. Is this a new thing? I hope you keep doing it. Thanks again for all your content. :)
I do a lot of this already in my A6 Hobonichi Techo, which I keep with me so I can jot ideas/thoughts down quickly. Looking forward to seeing how you divide your pages, if you did. I did that with mine and sort of regret it.
T :) for tips!!🙂🙂
I loved this video. You don't know how much I needed this. Sometimes I come up with ideas and I lose the the paper or notebook and I will find it later. I'm working to get organized. My question to you is how do you choose which idea to work on when you have multiple ideas? Once I have the idea I often get stuck.
Thank you for another awesome vlog. And yea, years ago, I had created 3 different books for my story, one has about mythical creatures and their small info, second notebook about the beginning part or characters of the story, and oddly enough, the third notebook is more characters in a different time in the story - along with other notes kept safely at the back of two of those notebook for that time in that story.
Still debating if I shouldn't get a flip folder and other things to safely sort out or combined all my notebooks in one big notebook/folder - since I keep going back and forth to find out how I spell the lands or kingdoms names.
I have my series plot and even the resolution... now I need to finish my character arc ideas and ideas for book one.
I love watching your channel. Great advice and inspiration! Would these methods work for children's books? Thank you!
I believe Neil Gaimen said, not to write down the ideas, just have them and let them rest in ur mind. He said bad ideas go away fast, but a really good idea stays with u for days...then he decides to sit down and write about it hahaha I guess both are interesting advice, maybe for a intuitive writer who does not plot that works better. But for a writter who plans every scene, its great to have everything organized hahah very interesting. I will definetelly try that out =) thank you sarrah! as always delivering great content.
I often find myself ushering the What if? Model of brainstorming. Much like your husband my wife to subjected to plotting and brainstorming with talking things out with me.
Hi Sarra! I love going through your youtube series, it's so much fun! If you are able to squeeze that in one of your series episodes, I'd love for you to talk a bit about how to decide whether a project should be one story or multiple ones in a book series for instance. For Shadow Demons for instance, did you know where the story was going to end when you first started writing it? It sometimes feel like the world of a story can expand limitlessly and it can be overwhelming to think of. Any advice would be deeply appreciated :)
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Surely gonna use these tips in my school exam story. Thats always a blunder😅
There may be n number of writers.
But only small number will share their ideas.
Thank you mam...
I come up with ideas randomly, but it normally happens when I watch movies or read books. Like lately I found out 'The Phantom of the Opera' is now public domain. I've always loved the books and musicals (Not 'Love Never Dies'), and I know I want to write a retelling of it with magic one day. Then I was reading 'Shadow and Bone' and found myself frustrated that the MC chooses the guy I didn't like. So I started asking myself what kind of story would I write if I had gotten the chance? And then I spend a good hour or two brain dumping everything that my mind comes up with. Most of it is me floundering around with the idea, but there will be a thread I can hold onto that's my basic plot.
Where did you get that awesome notebook for your lists? That thing is SO COOL! It looks like an A6 size notebook but it’s like two inches thick. Please tell us where you got it-I’d love to buy one too!
Oh gosh I so badly need to know how to stick with an idea 😬
Same here!
When will we get more on this series?
I get a lot of my story idea from my dreams :)
Yes! Do you keep a dream journal? Just curious! I keep feeling like I should!!
@@HeartBreathings I integrate it with my morning pages. Sometimes, if the idea is really good, I'll open a new note on my phone and just type away all the details before I forget. I'm lucky that I can remember a lot of my dreams vividly, so writing them down later isn't a problem. I actually wrote one of my worst nightmares into my latest book haha.
@@Serafijm oh such a great idea!!!
@@Serafijm me too!! I also use my phone’s notepad before the idea escapes. I’ve used many dreams as inspiration or scenes in a story.
This is a good idea for a gene i want to write in. so his will be s fun seis
OMG, yes! I been a Samsung Note user since Note 5 was released because of the S-pen. I would not be able to function without my Note.
Dreams and tarot often do it for me. Last novel I wrote came from a dream. BTW, the link to the resource library keeps giving me an error message.
Sorry for the link issue. My email provider disabled the use of short links without notifying us, so all of my links to the library got broken! Thanks for understanding. If you email me, Paula, I can send you the correct link!
I know some people might not have time for this method: I like creating my plots, characters, etc in my dreams
I like to keep a dream journal, because sometimes those strange dreams can be worked into story ideas.
Btw, I just subscribed to your newsletter, but apparently your database is down right now or the link is broken?
Sorry for the link issue. My email provider disabled the use of short links without notifying us, so all of my links to the library got broken! Thanks for understanding. If you email me, I'll send you the correct link!
@@HeartBreathings It's no problem, I just thought you should know. :)
I keep trying to access the link to the Heart Breathings Resource Library, but when I click it (from the recent newsletter) I get the error message; the page were looking for doesn't exist. I don't know what to do to fix it.
Try the second email she sent out today. The first one was fiddly, but the link in the second email works.
@@carriebartkowiak Thanks, that link worked!
I had to throw out some ideas because they were going to go nowhere