Half an idea is
enough to start.
You don’t need an outline, a logline, or a plan. Bring the fragment that keeps nagging at you and let it turn into something with edges.
Seed · what came back
01A town votes every spring on whose memories to keep. This year the ballot has her father’s name on it, and she is the one counting.
02The lighthouse has been automated for thirty years. Someone is still filing the logbooks, in handwriting that stopped existing in 1994.
Five ways in
Five premises that are actually different from one another — not five shades of the same idea.
Drafts the scene itself. In motion from the first line, one point of view, dialogue doing the work.
Lets a character talk for a while, so you can hear their rhythm before you commit to it.
Four ways the story could go from here, each with what it would cost your protagonist.
Line edits that tighten without flattening — your voice, just sharper.
The blank page is not the hard part.
The second sentence is.