Bullet Journal Brainstorming for Writers

So you're a writer or you want to be (which means you might already be one at heart). And you see the beauty of the bullet journal system. Are you looking for a way to put these two things together?

I'm looking for ways to use the bullet journal system to develop some writing ideas. There are a lot of ideas already, but organizing them in a way that can then be used to tell a story is not easy (at least not for someone who hasn't done this before).

The website On Demand Instruction has a good blog post for people struggling with this very thing titled JOURNAL WRITING & BRAINSTORMING: BULLET JOURNAL FOR CREATIVITY.

That post addresses a little bit about brainstorming then gives 5 quick points to list and help develop a story. It's a pretty logical approach to flesh out a few major aspects of a story:

Characters
Plot, Conflict, Problems
Settings and Scenes
Dialogue, Lines, and Quotes
Tone, Mood, and Style

This is an approach I've started with and it's helped a lot so far. Only time will tell. The post even has a half hour video on setting up a writing space. Check it out.

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