Someday you will be standing on a podium giving a reading from your new book and during the question-and-answer session someone in the audience will shyly raise her (or his) hand and ask you the following question: Where do you get your ideas?

Gore Vidal said that writers are great remembers and Patricia Highsmith compared her ideas to birds. When A. M. Homes was asked where she got her ideas by someone at a reading, she replied: “From you.” “Schenectady” was Joseph Finder’s clever response.

My question is: when you’re asked where you get your ideas, what will you say?

In my experience, most writers don’t struggle with coming up with new ideas. Ideas are around us everywhere. I think the harder part is deciding which of these ideas you should pursue. Which of your ideas is “story worthy?”

The story could be a novel, a screenplay, an article or a blog post, but what matters most is whether your idea has the legs to carry you all the way from penning (or typing) those first words onto to the blank page until the moment you reach The End.

Of course a story isn’t built on a single idea alone and we always get stuck, so here are some links to ideas, inspiration and hopefully, some enthusiasm.  

31 Ways to Find Inspiration for your Writing – Write to Done

10 Easy Ways to Get Inspired – Writers Community

50 Ways to Find Article Ideas – Freelance Switch

How to Generate Hundreds of Writing Ideas – Daily Writing Tips

lara

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