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When A "Good Idea," Isn't

I get a lot of random ideas that pop into my head for scenes in the novels I'm writing. Additionally, I get ideas for new books to write. Sometimes the idea sounds so awesome (to me at least) that I get so excited about it without taking a step back and looking at it objectively to see if it's an idea that will work, or if it just sounds good on paper. I have had one idea for a new story that I thought was awesome. However, the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it wasn't enough to build an entire story around. What I was able to do was take a hybrid of that idea and spin it into a Red Bow 2.0 twist.

So the idea might not have actually been a good idea, but I was able to salvage part of it and make it work in a different story. I think that this is one of the challenges I have as an amateur writer with no type of guidance or formal training. I think since I'm on my own, I'm having to make mistakes and learn things as I go. I have to learn what works and what doesn't work. I also have to try to be open minded and not get so irritated when an idea I have isn't such a good idea after all. This is all part of the writing and learning process.

Do you want to know what I spun the "good idea" into was? Well it's a new twist for Red Bow 2.0 and it involves........

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