{"id":119,"date":"2014-02-13T13:06:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T21:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/?p=119"},"modified":"2014-02-13T13:06:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T21:06:42","slug":"how-i-generate-story-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/how-i-generate-story-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Generate Story Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you write stories for fun like me, here&#8217;s something to try. \u00a0Get a letter die like the one below. \u00a0Or if you can&#8217;t find one, use Scrabble tiles, Boggle cubes, or slips of paper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/files\/2014\/02\/IdeaGenerator.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-120\" alt=\"Idea Generator\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/files\/2014\/02\/IdeaGenerator.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/files\/2014\/02\/IdeaGenerator.jpg 640w, http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/files\/2014\/02\/IdeaGenerator-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/files\/2014\/02\/IdeaGenerator-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Roll it twice to get two letters. \u00a0Or more times for more letters, if you like. \u00a0Then madly generate words from those letters, and see if that sparks a story idea. \u00a0What I do sometimes is allow myself no more than 30 minutes to flesh out a story. \u00a0I can polish it later if I&#8217;m pleased with it, but the time limit gives me permission not to get hung up over grammar and fine detail.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, <a title=\"The Strip-o-Tron\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wattpad.com\/story\/882134-the-strip-o-tron\">Strip-o-Tron<\/a>\u00a0(part 1, at least) was written in about half an hour, and so was <a title=\"A Bird in the Hand\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wattpad.com\/story\/968572-a-bird-in-the-hand\">Bird in the Hand<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you write stories for fun like me, here&#8217;s something to try. \u00a0Get a letter die like the one below. \u00a0Or if you can&#8217;t find one, use Scrabble tiles, Boggle cubes, or slips of paper. Roll it twice to get two letters. \u00a0Or more times for more letters, if you like. \u00a0Then madly generate words &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/how-i-generate-story-ideas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How I Generate Story Ideas<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,15,13,10,9,12,14,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}