My approach to writing “The Story” is different than the blast I did for “Novel 01” of “The Story.” What I’d like to do for “Novel 02” is create a viable, sustainable way of writing and recording that writing while I engage with other activities from vocational work, avocational writing perhaps, and recreational relaxation. If I undervalue any of those three, then my life gets into chaos.

Spoilers?: Major [Part 1 brainstorming, primarily]
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Opening lines of literature are well studied. Whenever I write essays, opening lines are something I consider as the bang to the rest of the buck. If you like what you first read, you’ll continue reading. Otherwise, you only might. For “The Story,” I’m not sure about the opening line. I forget “Novel 01’s” opening line. This might be “Novel 02’s” opening line: “Good afternoon.”

Spoilers?: Major [Brainstorming for literature]
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These near-weekly live-writing video recordings of brainstorming writings sessions have been helping me plan ideas much more efficiently. Over the past 6+ years of brainstorming for “The Story,” I’ve gone from scavenging for ideas to having them rush into my mind. When I wrote “Novel 01” over four weeks, following two weeks of pre-production, I was burned out. For “Novel 02,” I’m pacing myself to not be needy.

Spoilers?: Major [Part 1, 4 plot brainstorming]
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My plans for writing “The Story” include balancing out my other vocational, avocational, and recreational activities. I was working full-time in writing “Novel 01” and did so in a significantly irresponsible manner. When I go to write “Novel 02,” which might be in the spring of 2024 or 2025,  I want to have my research along with my timing down. Will I dedicate one day per week to writing?

Spoilers?: Major [Part 4 date brainstorming]
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In order to sustainably write “The Story,” I will need to find a way to be financially viable wherever I live doing whatever I need to pay rent, groceries, and more. I wrote “Novel 01” in an unsustainable bang of time over one month, which I will not be repeating with “Novel 02” and future novels. I need to write while balancing other responsibilities, hobbies, and interests.

Spoilers?: Major [borrowing work experiences]
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I’ve been planning to write “The Story” for years now. It’s been a declared plan for maybe six years? As far as mentally needing to write it, however, closer to twenty-plus. I went from writing “Novel 01” to completing it in less than two months. I’ve been planning “Novel 02” since I stopped writing “01,” and doing more formal writing/recording now for a few weeks. I believe another year will give me the time to write it properly.

Spoilers?: Major [time of year]
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Each week for the past few years now, I’ve been trying to brainstorm ideas for “The Story.” When I wrote “Novel 01,” I didn’t have much lead-up time to brainstorm before writing. Now with “Novel 02,” I can have significantly more brainstorming time to come up with good ideas, or ideas that maybe don’t work on their first execution, like the helpdesk schedule to figure out how many helpdesk employees there might be in “Novel 02.” Likely 15+ employees?

Spoilers?: Major [Part 2/3 brainstorming ideas]
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Now that I’m planning to write “Novel 02” sometime in the distant future, and using live-writing sessions with video recordings as way to document the process, I’m getting into a good workflow regarding thinking of ideas for “Novel 02.” This will help me write “The Story,” and I used similar thought patterns to write “Novel 01.” The problem is, however, I don’t have any specific details to build this week, so why don’t I share some scattered thoughts?

Spoilers?: Minor [characters, plot, settings]
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Now that I’m knee-deep in brainstorming for “Novel 02,” I am reminded of how the brainstorming happened for me before and during the writing of “Novel 01,” so this brainstorming process might continue well into the future, until I can write “The Story.” Over this past week, I thought extensively about the final of the four parts to “Novel 02,” so consider this preamble to be a massive spoiler warning concerning the details of the conclusion of “Novel 02.”

Spoilers?: Major [overall plot themes]
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