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WarJay77
(Troper Knight)
11th May, 2024 11:39:27 PM
I'm not sure if this is a trope/trivia concept so much as just something that creatives do to avoid losing their ideas. It's writing advice.
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
12th May, 2024 04:32:59 AM
A related actual trope would be Note to Self.
MetaFour
MOD
(Old Master)
12th May, 2024 06:53:08 AM
There's also Inspiration for the Work, a trivia page about how various Real Life authors were inspired to create their stories.
Is there a trope (or trivia item) in which a writer seizes an idea as it occurs to them, by writing it down at once?
Roald Dahl describes how he kept a notebook of one-sentence plot ideas, writing them down as they occurred to him, and that every book of his started out in this way.