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Originally Posted by Todd Young
Mostly, I get my ideas for stories when I'm reading.
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Originally Posted by Coralm
My ideas come from a lot of different places. Usually what happens is something I read or see sparks an idea. Later, when I'm doing nothing in particular it starts to take shape. I get a lot of ideas while driving. The state my mind is in while I'm doing that must get the neurons firing, I guess because I'm not consciously thinking of anything.
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I definitely have to agree with both of these statements!
But a lot of my ideas stem from the
lack of the chosen topic currently available to readers. I might read a good werewolf or vampire novel (though
good might not accurately describe what exactly is contained in those novels, but that's for a different place and time) and I'm immediately turned off from that topic because it's EVERYWHERE. I like to push the boundaries and choose to write about things that either haven't been visited in fifty years (and give it a modern twist) or something that I can't find decent representations of on the shelves.
