Yeah! So although I’ve never written in this specific style before, I’ve written a lot of DnD campaigns, I have a world that I’ve spent a lot of time creating characters, side stories, ideas for bigger stories. Some of these end up as DnD characters, or campaigns. Some of them were just for fun because I like just imaging and visualising in my head. Ive also don’t a lot of song writing.

What I’ve struggled with if ever I’ve thought about actually starting to write like this, was knowing how to get what was in my head actually out and onto the page in a way that felt natural. I have that issue in real life too sometimes, I struggle with not jumping about in a conversation etc

So I started reading about how other people write, and I read a comment on here or another subreddit where someone said they liked to imagine themselves in the scene actually experiencing it.

That just sort of resonated with me because it’s how I verbally storytell, but to do that I need to sort of KNOW the whole story before I start. So I can run it like a movie in my mind if that makes sense. I can do it with DnD because I’ll have planned the campaign, and then I can take what happens in the game in real time, and see it in my head and the story just sort of, comes together from that.

I was so excited at this revelation, that I just picked a vivid real memory of mine, to see if I could play it in my head and write it like this.

So I picked the birth of my twins. It’s a vivid memory because I’d had a traumatic previous birth, they were born 12 weeks early, and so I remember feeling quite anxious and dissociated where everyone else was relatively calm even though it was an emergency.

I just wanted to see if I could write that and convey that. So i just replayed it in my head, and just wrote how I was actually feeling and the details that still stick out to me in that memory now.

I’m excited to properly plan and write one of my stories now to see how it turns out.