Here’s a little secret about my writing process: my best ideas almost never arrive when I’m sitting at my desk, ready to type. They sneak up on me in the middle of folding laundry, making coffee, or trying to fall asleep.
It’s rarely a complete scene. More often, it’s fragments. A single line of dialogue, an image, or a wild “what if” that refuses to leave me alone. My characters, in particular, love to interrupt me at inconvenient times. (They’re very opinionated.)
Before, I used to lose a lot of those sparks. Scribbled notes on scraps of paper would disappear, and don’t even get me started on how many “brilliant” ideas I forgot before I could write them down.
That’s where Echo comes in. It’s like my digital notebook. A safe little corner where all those messy, half-formed thoughts can land. I don’t worry about whether they make sense. I just toss them in, and later, when I look back, they’ve transformed into something useful. Sometimes one stray thought from last week suddenly clicks with a character quip from yesterday, and voilà: a new scene takes shape.
My characters are sitting in there, waiting for me, chatting among themselves until I show up. By the time I return, they’ve got opinions, arguments, and secrets ready to spill.
So yes, my writing process is basically: collect the chaos, store it in Echo, and let the characters keep talking until I’m ready to listen. It’s not glamorous, but it’s wonderfully messy, and it means none of their voices ever get lost.
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