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Brainstorming team

Brainstorming thoughts

I had a request in feedback for a more general Brainstorming and ideas team and since I ma no longer working in a vacuum I thought I would toss this out here.

What specialists would such a team need? I like to keep them to 5 or 6 and the Director is necessary to make the rest behave. but it you wanted a group of friends to discuss a story idea with who would they be and what kind of backgrounds should they have. This matters for context and quality. Give me some ideas I really like this as a Phase Zero.

As was pointed out to me the story development team is great but they do push you to getting to the finish line so they can hand off to the character creators and the writers room. They're not very good at just freeform passing things back and forth.

I was reminded of this post as well that I need to go back and ponder "Sit with me"

https://www.skool.com/pws-community-for-writers-8447/happy-accidents?p=71613958

Research thoughts

While I'm at it I'm also thinking of a pure research tab with essentially no prompt so you can do a quick internet search and add to your notes directly here. Sure you can go to perplexity, google, chatgpt, claude, etc.. and copy and paste the answers, but would it be helpful?

Ideas

This ties into the first.. instead of just starting with a series, maybe the first item is IDEAS... a place to store snippets, and quick notes (and this send my rabbit hole brain into maybe a browser extension you can pop up at any time to type in something quick and send directly to the ideas.....nah.. we have enough of those).

Here me out! Ideas is a place to drop in a single file idea for all of those snippets and scenes you have hiding on your hard drive. Just putting them in here is a memory cue that they exist. Quick and dirty, they would be a binder style list (still thinking UI/UX/Interface here) that when you clicked on would open a modal window in front of everything that you could edit in , copy and paste in, come back and read. might even add the transcribe microphone to this and a "USE" button that would open a book and add it as a file to start working with. Not sure about this one exactly.. still percolating.

What are your thoughts on all of this? This is just a sample of how my brain works when I start down the rabbit holes. I have pages and pages in my (handwritten) notebook I need to collate and throw out for discussion

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