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On The Fly Story Creation

If you’re struggling to find ideas for stories I want to share a slightly different technique I use for short stories. You take a mundane situation that you’re in, and you change one detail and see where that leaves you. For example I’m on my way to get my car, it’s heaving down with rain [...]

Finding Ideas

 “Where do you get your ideas?” Even I get asked this occasionally, although as Gary Larson of The Far Side once said “why do you get your ideas?” might be a better question.  The short answer is: They won’t leave me alone.*  The long answer is that they tend to be hybrids of two other [...]

Where Do You Get Your Ideas?

I get asked this a lot.  I think any writer, published or unpublished, gets asked this at least once a week. To people who don’t write it’s the irresistible question…well, that and “why do you do this to yourself?” Maybe that’s just me. The truth for most of us is that we don’t know where [...]

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