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I Use the “Park It” Method When I Write
Too many ideas at once, two hands and only one brain
What is the “Park It Method”?
If you’re like me there are days when you’re practically brain dead and can barely function. Maybe the kid kept you up last night. Maybe the spouse (hubba hubba). Or maybe your health is a rollercoaster and you never know how you’re going to feel one minute to the next. Bingo!
But then you also have a million and one story ideas rolling around in your brain. The more you try to ignore them the louder they become. You have to write them out or you’ll lose what’s left of your mind. For me, that’s a bike ride around the corner but I digress. So what do you do?
You park it. Here’s what I mean by the park it method. Title, subtitle, image with citation, the ramblings in your head on this one subject, some links for research and that’s it. Done. Open up another new story on here and repeat the process until you have all of the ideas out of your head.
This will quiet the noise but you know what else it does? On the days you have a wee bit of writer’s block or your muse is on hiatus you hit up your Draft folder and viola! Stories galore just waiting for you. I scroll through mine and choose the one that grabs my attention at that moment, finish it off, and then either self-publish or submit it to a publication.
Try it and see if it works for you. If you do try it let me know in the comments section how it worked out. I’d like to know that I’m not the only writer out here with this good-to-have problem!
