Drakevarg
Troubadour
Perhaps this doesn't apply to everyone, but at least for me journals, margin notes, outlines and idea webs can only carry my thought processes so far. Sooner or later I need to explain it to someone else. Sometimes it's for a new perspective or just fresh eyes to find things I missed, but just as often it's because I tend to come at my own thoughts sideways and need to articulate it to someone to force it into a legible shape.
Of course, such a person isn't always available. I can't just blurt it out to anyone. It needs to be someone who would understand and care about whatever it is I'm rambling on about. And that I don't want to spoil the project for. So I can't, for example, discuss with one of the players in a game I'm running my ideas for the next story arc, and I probably shouldn't start a thread on a relevant message board (hi!) in order to just blurt my writing notes out in public without any actual point to make.
Anyone else face a similar conundrum? If so, what do you usually do about it?
Of course, such a person isn't always available. I can't just blurt it out to anyone. It needs to be someone who would understand and care about whatever it is I'm rambling on about. And that I don't want to spoil the project for. So I can't, for example, discuss with one of the players in a game I'm running my ideas for the next story arc, and I probably shouldn't start a thread on a relevant message board (hi!) in order to just blurt my writing notes out in public without any actual point to make.
Anyone else face a similar conundrum? If so, what do you usually do about it?