I just hope it doesn't melt...

Thanks to Ben Godby and his endlessly interesting blog for the heads up on this: Randy Ingermanson’s snowflake method.

I’ve read the steps of his snowflake method, and despite it leading up to an advert for a software product and having a name like a new-age self-help philosophy, I reckon I’m going to give it a go. The steps seem sensible enough.

I’ve always been a “discovery writer” and so far what I’ve discovered is that I suck. My ideas are fine – they’re for the types of books I’d like to read, which are the only type you should write – but I fail miserably at turning ideas into structured stories.

Maybe Randy has the answer. Who wouldn’t trust a man called Randy? Look at him. Look at his moustache. He’s a theoretical physicist too:

Oh no, wait, that’s Tom Selleck: Magnum PI. Easy mistake to make. Here you go:

So, no more wandering starry eyed into my WIP rewrite only to end up floundering in the bog of indecision and plot-holes known as Argggh. This time I will go armed with snowflake.