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.

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