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<blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 4989415" data-attributes="member: 94">Glad to know everything is all right. You are not the first contestant to wither, and probably won't be the last. Lord knows it has happened to me. As I said early on (I think?), sometimes it's hard enough just crossing the finish line at all.My usual process is to get the ingredients, write them on a Post-It note, and carry them around with me. Just roll them around and look for connections. Good ideas get written down-- one sentence fragment at a time, often in non-linear fashion with respect to the adventure. I build a list of &quot;flavor bites&quot; from the ingredients-- connections between two disparate ingredients that I want to highlight. The night before the due date, I start doing the serious thinking right before bed-- without notes-- and literally &quot;sleep on it.&quot; In the shower, or on my work commute, I start connecting the flavor bites and &quot;writing&quot; in my head.By the time I actually sit down to type up the entry, it's about an hour's worth of intense (and often hurried) work.Come to think of it, my Iron DM process is eerily similar to my college writing process...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wulf Ratbane, post: 4989415, member: 94"] Glad to know everything is all right. You are not the first contestant to wither, and probably won't be the last. Lord knows it has happened to me. As I said early on (I think?), sometimes it's hard enough just crossing the finish line [I]at all[/I]. My usual process is to get the ingredients, write them on a Post-It note, and carry them around with me. Just roll them around and look for connections. Good ideas get written down-- one sentence fragment at a time, often in non-linear fashion with respect to the adventure. I build a list of "flavor bites" from the ingredients-- connections between two disparate ingredients that I want to highlight. The night before the due date, I start doing the serious thinking right before bed-- without notes-- and literally "sleep on it." In the shower, or on my work commute, I start connecting the flavor bites and "writing" in my head. By the time I actually sit down to type up the entry, it's about an hour's worth of intense (and often hurried) work. Come to think of it, my Iron DM process is eerily similar to my college writing process... [/QUOTE]

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