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Old 05-09-2011, 08:57 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by Assassin View Post
"Proprietary Secrets". You make it sound like there might be a mathematical formula, or a potion you just go out and get. People can get upset if they want to but, "It just comes out of my head!!!" That's what separates writers from readers; the same as entrepreneurs are different from the workers who take their ideas and turn them into a product.
And the best part is the ideas continue to bubble up even while you are composing. About half of my first novel was nowhere in sight when I started writing. The doing of it is what brings out all the other ideas that have been lurking just under the surface.

As for ideas, mine came from a combination of life experiences and a lot of reading in a lot of different areas of interest. Sometimes they just pop up from nowhere, like thinking about Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal (flowers of evil) and wondering what if a flower really was infused with evil, say a rose with thorns that could prick your finger and touch your blood.

What if . . . the two most powerful words a writer knows.
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