Piper Nuelle

If like me your brain is chugging out story ideas at a 100 miles a minute, you may find you end up with a load of scribbles on bits of paper, or loads of random notebooks filled with a plethora of ideas for stories… Just like the AI image I have used above… You end up with half filled notebooks, filled with ideas and your scribbles… But are these half finished book ideas failures?

I find quite often I will have this great idea, and I run with it, I think it is going to be amazing, the next novel to take the world by storm… But then… I run out of steam or it doesn’t end up making sense or becoming what I originally envisioned. So I will stop, I will put the pen down and focus on another idea that I may feel is more viable in the theme of me finishing it and maybe ending up with a full, finished manuscript that I can use and either self publish or send to an agent to review and hope a publisher picks up. But the unfinished one will most likely end up in my doom pile in my drawer in my desk… But what do I do with them all? Do I keep them? Is a failed book idea worth holding onto?

Yes… Those ideas are most definitely worth holding on to and are NOT failures. Maybe they didn’t work yet because the idea wasn’t fully formed or fleshed out enough yet. Maybe the idea could end up blending with another idea to become fully formed and even better than it originally was. Or maybe it just wasn’t the right time for that idea and story yet, but in years to come in might be. Or maybe one day you may hit a writing stump, you can go through your old ideas to see if any peak your interest and could be turned from nothing into something.

Your ideas are never failures… And never waste them or throw them away… Keep a hold because you never know when you might need it. And remember, ‘ones ideas that are ‘trash’, are another ideas ‘treasure’…’

Xo Piper Xo