Where do Ideas Come from?
Where do the best ideas for stories and characters and images come from? Where will you find the most fertile resource for imagination and truth?
Your mind, of course. And in your everyday life.
Writing is very much about elements such as plot, characterization, description, dialogue, and voice, but often the most important work does not happen at the keyboard. It comes from somewhere deeper, from bringing the riches of your mind to the surface. It’s a process that happens when you are away from the words and outlines—often sleeping or dreaming or going about your everyday tasks.
Allow your mind to wander....be bored or still some of the time so you can live in your imagination. This is the place where the greatest riches are found.
What do you have to say to the world?
What stories are your dreams revealing to you?
Have you observed someone interesting lately?
What are you frustrated about?
Unleash your fantasy world.
Remember, great writers write everyday, not because they have to, but because they need to, and because they have something to say to the world.
Check out some writing topic ideas NEW Writing Assignment #1: Students are to write a bio telling about themselves including: interests, hobbies, likes/dislikes, favourite foods, fav. books, foods etc. This assignment should be written in third person. Ex. Jane is a shy girl who lives in Comox with her two cats named Goofy and Mittens. Jane enjoys knitting in her free time ……Length 1 paragraph
Criteria: - detailed, specific writing
- 1 paragraph in length
- proper spelling and grammar
- typed
When finished, you are to find a partner in the class to read your paragraph to and get them to help you improve the piece by offering suggestions. Make sure the assignment is typed and has your name on it.
As a child, King apparently witnessed one of his friends being struck and killed by a train, though he has no memory of the event. His family told him that after leaving home to play with the boy, King returned speechless and seemingly in shock. Only later did the family learn of the friend's death.[
When King was two, his father left the family. His mother raised him and his older brother David by herself, sometimes under great financial strain. When King was 11, his family moved to Durham, Maine, where his mother cared for her parents until their deaths.
In conversation with Terry Gross, King says: "My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did."
