Just hit 100 story ideas in my notebook and it feels pretty good

I started keeping a small black notebook for random writing prompts about a year ago. I was just jotting down things like 'what if a lighthouse keeper found a message in a bottle from their future self?' I opened it today and counted, and I've got exactly 100 of those little ideas now. It's not a finished story, but seeing them all there makes me feel like I've actually been collecting something real. What's a small goal you've hit with your own writing lately?

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jana_hart1815d agoMost Upvoted

That's a cool way to track progress. I keep a list on my phone but it's a mess. I'm curious, out of all those ideas, which one feels the most personal? Like the one that if someone read it, they'd know a little too much about how your brain works.

adamr1415d ago

Wow, which of those 100 ideas is the one you're most scared to actually write?

emma_dixon7015d ago

Oh man, that's a tough one! Honestly, the scariest idea is this quiet story about a family silently falling apart, because it hits way too close to home. It's like what @jana_hart18 said about someone knowing too much about your brain, but for me it's about showing a side of my own family I've never talked about. Writing it would feel like handing people a key to a room I keep locked. The fear isn't about it being bad, it's about it being true.