Day Thirteen - Getting started on scenes

I'm starting to think that attempting a daily fiction writing habit is too difficult. I don't think it will ultimately be productive to my work: sometimes I function better when I put the project down for a day or two and then come back to it with a fresh perspective. After the 30 day challenge is over I will probably just try for a regular daily writing habit and supplement my fiction with blog or journal entries.

Today I'm still feeling pretty tired, and it doesn't help that I'm researching lucid dreaming for my novel. When you constantly read the words "dream" and "sleep", it really makes you want to hit the hay. 

The good news is that I've discovered a helpful way to write scenes that I don't really know exactly what I'm going to say. (That is, I know X is going to happen, but I don't exactly know yet how or what the dialogue is.) What I'll do is brainstorm a little by writing at the top in parentheses what is going to happen. For example, here is some of my brainstorming for something I'm writing today:

(Scene where Robin tries lucid dreaming for the first time. She dreams, then wakes and writes down what she dreamed about, then goes back to sleep. At this point she is not cohesive with the dream girl. That happens later. Here she just sees a few tidbits. In the morning she tells Rory what happened, trying to prove to him how important it is. He complains that he doesn’t want to go after some girl who may or may not exist and says that if it happens again he’ll consider it.)

I know, it's super interesting. Usually once I have this down I know the direction I'll be moving in. The rest will generally come together as I'm writing. This brainstorming that I pasted above has now resulted in two scenes (and binding them to another scene that I had already written previously). 

It's nice to see Part I finally coming together!